CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 and 5 An example of following suit with frank intimate conversation (5,2,5) 11 No progress made when not facing up to honest individual (4,2,6,3) 12 Renovate fag end (4)

13 Print illuminated house (5)

14 Move and step without assessing first (4) 17 Set day to replace boyfriend (6) 18 Fulfil if stay’s arranged (7)

20 Posh car will possibly be owned by the perfect man, while ... (2,5)

22 ... titled fellow returns to society girl in wreckage (6)

24 This guy sees volunteers desert humanitarian organisation (4) 25 Criticise Irish pilgrims’ destination (5) 26 Monster thus overthrown (4) 29 Offsets worktop with scales (15) 30 Escort dealer with no introduction (5) 31 Wee bits cobbled together make up this

internet presence (7)

DOWN

2 Returns gone up since small company’s into organising ways for personnel to interact (9,6)

3 Starts roughly in tackling attractive meter maid (4)

4 Check whether I’m demanded to take the stand (7)

6 Name part of their Emerald Isle (4) 7 Adequate space for place of execution with a whip (4,2,5,1,3)

8 Home for a spell (5)

9 Provisional film shots of reeds (6) 10 Makes payment for egg fried rice initially within a limited time (7)

15 Fruit seen among shambles (5)

16 Shots cause the French to leave equine premises (5)

19 May whipped cream be given enthusiastic welcome (7)

21 Hard nut loses head when being sent back to arctic plain (6)

22 Announce to be cleared up (7) 23 Is clever-clogs club “Males Anonymous”? (5)

27 Just yesterday discovered an eye infection (4)

28 Rodents with regular breadths (4)