CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mature form of peers (3,5)

5 Passer re-allocates weapons (6)

9 Maligns sound functions of jazz (8)

10 Part of poem covers Turkistan, Zanzibar (6)

12 Witch that is whisky (5,4)

13 Dealings with HGV (5)

14 I put in last gable ornament (6)

17 Uniform appears in singular time at the

precise moment required (2,3)

20 Steer clear of first woman to embrace

common era (5)

21 Cranes deployed in military barracks (6)

24 Engineers return with double original

measure of corn (5)

25 The Chinese way is everyone to make Irish

head of government (9)

28 Sort of at home and not at home (2,1,3)

29 Took away tube during action (8)

30 Did allow creation of pigs lights (6)

31 Debts of horse farm are learned (8)

DOWN

1 Gazetteer confuses sect of Mesoamericans

(6)

2 Squeezes out precise statement from the

start (6)

3 What fabulous yarn encompasses is rotten

(5)

4 The girl may attract bachelor in land of an

ancient queen (5)

6 Stroke the cat, for example, hard with our

little biscuit, say (5,4)

7 Proclaim a new type of word at church (8)

8 Electricians plant informers round boat (8)

11 Smacks with seaweed in ship (6)

15 Tie bear in excitement when drunk (9)

16 Provoke uprising in Northern Ireland and

summon for court appearance (6)

18 In France I drape tresses back around me

like an Old Testament prophet (8)

19 A marbles game goes with food in the pub

(3,5)

22 Marxist leader short of oil (6)

23 Tells off when chef initially takes cover (6)

26 No upright formation is explicit (5)

27 Gang of seven first, then two pairs (5)