CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Promise angry first bid, perhaps, around start

of sale (5,4,5)

9 Ring road for transport to absorb it all (7)

10 Part of ship where operations were

swamped by incoming seawater (7)

11 Handy soldier descending from the sky (4)

12 Close relative subjected to execution is not

the same (5)

13 Dog to keep trying (4)

16 Provokes without good reason, not on sly

(7)

17 Halted, losing heart _ went back to stores

(6)

19 Animals chief inspector takes to

appropriate medical specialists (6)

22 Chew bit of enigmatic charm (7)

25 Pick up if classed as light (4)

26 Suffocate when apartments are given up

(5)

27 Hope legacy includes car (4)

30 Continue to make a fuss (5,2)

31 It causes trouble for girl Merlin put under

spell (7)

32 Equines are given some freedom in areas

that are calm and dry (5,9)

Down

1 and 24 Ban put on exchanging threat of

extermination (8,5)

2 Heavy weight carried by former Chancellor

(7)

3 Fill return of Greek letters (4)

4 People from great river region stole in bit by

bit (7)

5 Prove fertile group can envisage original

development (3,4)

6 Spot extra-sensory perception over fork (4)

7 Time ran out for getting clothes (7)

8 and 18 Cut off ties when always at the golf

course on Sunday (5,3,5)

14 Works at ballet movements (5)

15 Is sick over church seats after early service

(5)

18 see 8

20 Deduce there isn’t a fire (7)

21 I’m back on tracks, being creative (7)

22 What railway company should have

conveyed (7)

23 Chief begged when knocked off his perch

(7)

24 See 1

28 and 29 Instruction to soldiers on the march when England agreement abandoned (4,4)