CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Unassailable arguments for non-alcoholic

beverage drunk with trunk (10,4)

9 Cut short mid-term assembly (7)

10 Game’s unfortunately all bent (7)

11 Tremble to remove head from fish (4)

12 Offspring, boy, introduces Room 101 (5)

13 Old-fashioned girl comes back on short line

via centre (4)

16 Half-seen attempts made with written

records (7)

17 Moroccan dish good for eating out (6)

19 Collection of sheaves taken on board (6)

22 Rubbish kind of music featuring original

band (7)

25 Girl in California city, North America (4)

26 Produce feeble surroundings for last player

(5)

27 Sneaking glance can go either way (4)

30 Potters about at demo (7)

31 Ploated bits of future frog (7)

32 Feigns indifference to dramas difficult to

understand (5,4,2,3)

Down

1 Arrange surveillance over vital part of

timekeeper (5,3)

2 Kitten plays with Rex’s bauble (7)

3 It’s behind game member (4)

4 Fashionable risks are measures of change

(7)

5 Spend idle social time and flag, perhaps (4,3)

6 Animals that leave endless droppings (4)

7 It’s not a sort of position (7)

8 The last shall be first when heaps form

depression (5)

14 Stray canine? Do feed to pig (2-3)

15 In every other laugh, Gordon found

provocation (5)

18 Arrange introduction for wife (8)

20 Lit up about data on wrap (7)

21 Abandon score (7)

22 Hard worker has gross following (7)

23 Good English, in conjunction with

environment, is everlasting (7)

24 A hundred rounds of applause (5)

28 Depend on losing heart to answer back (4)

29 Access to mine gained to complete the

sum, they say (4)