CRYPTIC PUZZLE

1 A drink to bend over for? (6) 7 Film of leading players at loggerheads? (4,4) 8 Flabby as many a politician (4) 10 When to eat fish and chips from the sound of it? (6) 11 Current admission of paternity? (6) 14 You have to do it in time (3) 16 Goes white as dad and the boy (5) 17 Its not often there are gunners about (4) 19 A failure in various roles (5) 21 I’m in the bath, perhaps, as a regular thing (5) 22 One of the funny things you may read (5) 23 Shocks to vessels (4) 26 Stimulate a young dog with not much pedigree (3,2) 28 It cleans up many an operation (3) 29 He takes too much interest in finance (6) 30 Those giving masterly imitations? (6) 31 A kiss is a sort of union (4) 32 It goes round tangling our laces (8) 33 Is this vessel a tug? (6)

1 Puddinghead (6) 2 The game is over (6) 3 Spot the letter to a secret agent (4) 4 Elephantine instrument? (7) 5 Airship of the desert? (5) 6 Remains as he is (5) 8 Dishonest way to make a lira (4) 9 A girl, one for me to go out with (3) 12 Standard of play, of course? (3) 13 Allude to an official monarch (5) 15 Name of a boy who’s swallowed a piece of biscuit?

(5) 18 Longs for some peaches (5) 19 Beat up little Malcom (3) 20 So Latin (3) 21 Aspiring to make a flight on unusual fuel (7) 22 Dog with a tail to cut short (3) 23 Funny way to get people run out! (6) 24 Animals taking part in escapes (4) 25 Her rest is disturbed in hospital (6) 26 Drink out of a bowl (5) 27 Sounds happy to turn up with posh cars (5) 28 He may get well (3) 30 Happen on a date in Autumn (4)