CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Bill level clears (7)

5 Native American leaves hospital quickly (5)

11 Joe Public seen on the village green with

others (3,6,6)

12 Vigil we all know ends in beginnings (4)

13 Dog, perhaps, finished after run (5)

14 Very small particle dissolved in moat (4)

17 and 18 Military crusader let ramp down after dark, we hear (6,7)

20 and 22 Enter good demonstrator with

short-lived inconvenience (7,6)

24 Corner that is not all right (4)

25 Mexican bandit who put clergyman into

menagerie (5)

26 Programming language used selectively by

hotmail, maybe? (1,1,1,1)

29 Stories going the rounds about banking

facilities (7,8)

30 Rights to use land around Dundee

originally causes vendettas (5)

31 Cheapened role we’d adapted (7)

Down

2 Slacken off temporarily to find out what one

is studying (5,4,6)

3 First state of union beamed up to flying

saucers (4)

4 Break when set interval elapsed (4-3)

6 Noble squint (4)

7 Condemnation to death of Edinburgh is a

mad god’s dream (7,8)

8 Grants not be packs (5)

9 Overrun if nest destroyed (6)

10 Men get confused when kept in ignorance

in this country (7)

15 Stove in once more (5)

16 Suffocate in apartments that are upsidedown (5)

19 Greens sometimes pin a chance to enter (7)

21 Something unpleasant to be found in

enhanced cave (6)

22 Polite form of address to two officers

creates windstorm (7)

23 Misrepresentation of key deficit (5)

27 Take notice of the educational payload (4)

28 Hurtful comedown for Cupid (4)