Western Morning News

The Brain Teaser

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ACROSS

1. Cheat by putting his in the bottom of the parcel (6)

4. With the holiday-makers going in, falls through (8)

10. Why the famous remain unlisted? (7)

11. Dare to show the opening turn again (7)

12. Say you do get the picture (4)

13. Turned up the unbridged version (4,6)

16. Having landed, has turned round again (6)

17. Felicity made me drop the lamp (7)

20. He's over eleven (7)

21. The chap dropped, down-hearted (6)

24. The daughter, I made it clear, was very troubled (10)

25. An omen that will have me departing soon (4)

27. Thus the girl is taken round the island (7)

29. A friendly: “Put the bird back” (7)

30. Couldn't stand for trial, being protected by the act (8)

31. Rub out “To attain the leadership” (6)

DOWN

1. He expects people to provide him with food (8)

2. How quickly you pepper and salt your food? (2,3,6)

3. Back up to the island (4)

5. Returning to the valley, always delighted (8) 6. Shows the vessel the man half-capsized (10) 7. Seem upset by the caged bird (3)

8. We had, at the outset, been worried (6) 9. Be back in a depression, but deny it (5) 14. Racket made by the demonologi­sts? (6,5) 15. That's right; bonds go with personal effects (10)

18. Convince the padre Sue can be reformed (8) 19. Did turn the vehicle round (8)

22. Elicited, at the interior, from the instructed (6)

23. The fish then will swim and get caught inside (5)

26. The Indian is in church again (4)

28. Turn rightwards? Poppycock! (3)

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