CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Media promotion to drive affected gain around (5,8)

10 Rid male of crashed car (7)

11 Storage units _ for underwear? (7)

12 Writing points to nothing in book serving leaders (4)

13 Sauce has quickly run out (5)

14 Dog, perhaps, if returning to party (4)

17 Suffered at 0.5, say, when gravity kicked in (9)

19 Tough textile recovered when dug out of ground (5)

20 Gather scraps from eagle anchorage (5)

22 Company man declines to accept

navigational instruments (9)

24 Facts don’t start with pity (4)

25 Change ends of heroic stories with hot ingredient (5)

27 Just middling (4)

30 Bum up on seeing me come back in box (7)

31 Prepares cash (7)

32 The weekend starts here _ as does the race (5,6,2)

Down

2 Put bars on cot _ it supports sleepers (7)

3 and 6 Sailor’s gone for stash (4,4)

4 Remedy found round very first bend (5)

5 It’s rammed chaos half-way across (9)

6 see 3

7 Ancient European reacting badly when

model’s removed (7)

8 Capital music, castle seat or confection? (9,4)

9 A change is a dog’s asset or a disaster (2,4,2,1,4)

15 Face down publicity over an individual (5)

16 Stain mare’s outfit (5)

18 Officer oversees metal jetties constructed

by those on the spot (9)

21 Outside engineers are way out (7)

23 Fake is initially no good for dragging through the mud (7)

26 Swear to run without solo finish (5)

28 and 29 Offer crazy situation for one sci-fi heroine (8)