The Scotsman

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- ROS SHERARD

Across

1 At uni they are head of immorality, fortune

and roll-reversal (4-10)

9 and 10 This is mine! Gamble on plan to take

revenge (3,4,3,4)

11 Old measuremen­t of watering holes not

begun (4)

12 Joins golf course (5)

13 see 6 down

16 Scottish couple was mentioned in large

book (7)

17 Silly mistake overturns students (6)

19 Fits text message to health resort (6)

22 Grieved to split up and go one's separate

ways (7)

25 Peel (and cut up) fruit, we hear (4)

26 Inapt rendering of gloss, for example (5)

27 Put on when every actor refused leads (4)

30 and 31 Applauded at entrance of actor

Jeremy, summarily detained (7,2,5)

32 Computer processing company employs fifty-one men as actuaries – a highlyeduc­ated group of people (14)

Down

1 Word picture used for alternativ­e vetting

electronic­ally (8)

2 Café latte missing final touches, being

frothed up by domestic pest (3,4)

3 Heavy footfall of Interpol commander

upheld (4)

4 Skilful and initially easy way to drive in

France (1,6)

5 Score when time's raised (5,2)

6 and 13 across Property owner to bag

aristocrat­ic partner in marriage? (8)

7 Where ham and salad, for example, may be

consistent winner (2,1,4)

8 Loses control of steering initially self-willed

children (5)

14 Drift idly along shore (5)

15 Bigwigs turn up on Sunday as dodgy

dealers, perhaps (5)

18 Banks are collapsing in Midwest state (8)

20 Be relevant to parent I mistreated (7)

21 Scrutinise lawyer over first legal case of

malicious gossip (7)

22 Plunging family into muck (7)

23 Antelopes mentioned in connection with

ark, say (7) 24 Paediatric­ian who lived long and

prospered? (5)

28 Kidnap server – hold at front of church (4) 29 Alternatel­y swinging to evidence (4)

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