GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

(28,297) SET BY PUCK

ACROSS

1 Type of crab a long time in retreat (9)

9 The Parisian put on 21, right away (6)

10 Forgetting a 21’s on, or is off (9)

11 Once again sinks back (6)

12 Dorothy cut 18 about 9, 11 or 13? (9)

13 Swinging Sixties model’s out of fashion (6)

17 Eg 2 or 9 runabout after part exchange (3)

19 Atmospheric phenomena going round our area (7)

20 Joy, perhaps, as adult child entertains mother (7)

21 Mafia boss with no love for Trump (3)

23 Something delicious drunk in 10 17 across (6)

27 Ransack home outside university (3,6)

28 Do well getting duck cooked in its own fat? (6)

29 French department’s given the runaround initially (9)

30 Unreal images screened by one idol, anonymously (6)

31 Be doing what Puck’s done? That would be troublesome! (9)

DOWN

2 Lead someone’s cortege (6)

3 Changes seamlessly from

13, cooking duck for one (6)

4 Journey taking in too much for threelegged one (6)

5 Do long trips on a boat (7)

6 Stay in front, using one’s loaf to slyly look up answer first (4,5)

7 Most dull and uninspiring diet’s got agitated about ‘seconds’ (9)

8 18 by the Queen, breaking into cancan? (9)

14 17 acrosses able to be moved around without gas (9)

15 Eg 10 and 11s doctors had in 17 acrosses (9)

16 Mother meets daughter in Texas city that she left earlier (9)

17 HDMI feature included in device controls (1,1,1)

18 Blame US chat shows? (3)

22 Solvent working at once (drug being inhaled) (7)

24 Model with topless career (6)

25 Rock school? It’s rocking! (6)

26 French novelist working as Hebrew judge (6)