Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

2. How a cot got formed and how they cheered (9)

8. Eggs on with some ovation (3) 9. Almost trod on that fishing pole (3)

10. Thrown out, I find a way in and you criticise me severely (9) 11. Some schemer, you’ll find will be a hard one (5)

14. See me at the top and in the rhythm (5)

17. At tea, received a letter from Greece (3)

19. Depart and start spelling this Biblical book (6)

20. Go out with Nola at the lake (6)

21. You start moping when you’re given it to clean (3) 23. Curves a diver doesn’t like to take (5)

26. Anyway, it’s just a held principle (5)

29. Don’t nice men start to appreciate such flavouring? (9)

30. A container which will produce a grating sound (3) 31. That Pat appears quick to learn (3)

32. Lee is disturbed about a mind which is simple (9)

DOWN

1. Peer at one so stately (5) 2. There’s a hiding place for each 100 (5)

3. I’m back with the pigs and it’s cloudy too (5) 4. In the East I meet this tenor (6)

5. It includes art as a distinguishing feature (5)

6. The doctor sees me in a vision (5)

7. I would start to see the state it’s in (5)

12. Some love to see the beast (5)

13. Quick to observe the pair in early December (5)

15. Is this bird a legal high flyer? (5)

16. Inclined to meet one attached to Public

Relations (5)

17. Feel mercy for a tree (3) 18. My pal is on a high (3)

22. Where skaters are to be found when not skating? (6) 23. Paterson strings along (5) 24. You’ll need a crane to extract the mother-of-pearl (5)

25. Not quite single and such a hot one (5)

26. Seen as luxury to eat a lot of tar (5)

27. Relating to birth in Africa? (5) 28. Hackneyed part of the

Last Rites (5) Solution in next month’s issue.