CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Wide (5)

6 Cook in the oven (5)

9 Garbage collectors (7)

10 Paddle-boat (5)

11 Hit (5)

12 Spoilt children (5)

13 Inhabitant (7)

15 Body of water (3)

17 Minerals (4)

18 Victoria’s consort (6)

19 Heading (5)

20 British river (6)

22 Feline (4)

24 Previous day (3)

25 Vegetables (7)

26 Beam of light (5)

27 Ancient Peruvian (5)

28 Passageway (5)

29 Scope (7)

30 Pale (5)

31 Displayed (5)

DOWN

2 Lecturer (6)

3 Beautiful youth (6)

4 Owing (3)

5 Severe (5)

6 Cold-blooded creature (7)

7 Responsibility (4)

8 Football (6)

12 Start (5)

13 Extinguish (5)

14 Courage (5)

15 Antidote (5)

16 Books of maps (5)

18 Tree (5)

19 Treachery (7)

21 Occurrences (6)

22 Penalise (6)

23 Mild (6)

25 Jumped (5)

26 Decorative material (4)

28 Donkey (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS ACROSS: 3, Brash 8, Repel 10 Tower 11 Tar 12 Carat 13, Galahad, 15, Penny 18, Tor 19, Allege, 21, Lettuce 22, Raid 23, Near 24 Forever, 26 Margin 29, Pip 31, Sheen 32, Stating 34, Nicks 35, Um 36, Gamut 37, Sneer 38, Seeps.

DOWN: 1, Metal 2, Berated 4, Read 5, Staple 6, Hotel, 7 Being, 9 Pal, 12 Cartoons 14, Hot, 16 Never, 17, Yearn, 19, Accepts 20 Drums, 21 Litre, 23, Neptune, 24 Finite 25, Via, 27, Ahead , 28, Genus 30, Inner 32, Skip 33, Ire.