DAILY PUZZLES PAGE

ACROSS

1 Oriental wear for doctor in family

circle (6) 4 Swirling mist hides the way forward

(8) 9 Relax and pause going round about

the East (4,2) 10 Egyptian structure seen as dawn

breaks before morning (5,3) 11 Accustoms user in new process (6) 12 Play to the balcony (8) 13 United, we figure (3) 14 False description of the Tower of

Pisa (6) 17 Crowded wards need re-organising

to take me in (7) 21 Renee’s calm disposition (6) 25 Fish paid for at the door (3) 26 Where everybody goes in to sweep

around the floor? (8) 27 The last thing those taking exams

should do (6) 28 Two cutlets at once (4,4) 29 Elaborate point to make a speech

about (6) 30 They cut inside the fold (8) 31 The arrival of a commercial airway

(6)

DOWN

1 Don’t slacken when flying a kite?

(4,2,2) 2 There may be a net cost for

protection against this raider (8) 3 Common sense about a practice

arousing disgust (8) 5 Lady journalist not caught out (6) 6 Gave an address to read out (6) 7 Create goodwill by being close to the

listener (6) 8 Soften wax (6) 12 Space for some oar movement (3,4) 15 Wee startled animal (3) 16 No alternative (3) 18 Put off and fed up with having made

a mistake (8) 19 Wait a minute, the tea is brewing (8) 20 Submissive, always coming up with

regular payment (8) 22 Jack and Bill meet us at the counter

(6) 23 Retreat for a chap about fifty (6) 24 Shopkeeper pronouncedly less

refined (6) 25 Slightly exaggerate an account and

blush (6)