CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 It’s suited Pa in a funny sort of way to save

(3,5)

5 Go back to bathe? Rubbish _ it’s sluggish (6)

9 Game played in infancy with first ball (8)

10 Loft given a place in ancient Greece (6)

12 Revisit dream tone of French cathedral (5,4)

13 Girl announced compound used in perfume

(5)

14 Assembled spares are in short supply (6)

17 Corridor I can use to accommodate column

(5)

20 Group’s come up with locations (5)

21 Leather worker gives sixpence (6)

24 Has oxygen got grim smell? (5)

25 I’m in, being persuaded after wobble, now

unassailable (4,5)

28 Bold brace in Scotland (6)

29 List of correspondents seen through

lenses (8)

30 I leave mess of dirties with one big step (6)

31 Tiny sea creatures are quiet, flaccid, not

reflective (8)

Down

1 Nuts inject a narcotic initially into muscles

(6)

2 Perverts dances (6)

3 Winner based on withdrawal of sword (5)

4 Entrenched belief can be a bitch (5)

6 Almost nervous about article (2,3,4)

7 These are indicators of degraded proteins

(8)

8 Two cars compete to tow motoring

organisation to last place (4,4)

11 Wonders of the world include river _ this

river? (6)

15 Decline to pay for drinks in offer to all (4,5)

16 Keep jug or give it back (6)

18 Assuming equal length (2,4,2)

19 High-class car on road used as buggy (8)

22 Draw out final statute that’s lawful (6)

23 Fred is one introducing inventor (6)

26 Yeoman is chief executive office of Rugby

League (5)

27 Was a non-participant observer of smooth

material (5)