THE BS CROSSWORD

# 2746

ACROSS

8 Perhaps, fair as means of going to the jungles ? (6)

9 Goal of Spielberg movie, the first of millions (3)

10 Almost all gas – almost – from seaweed, etc (4)

11 For some soldiers, the opposite of joining up (10)

12 Appropriate honours for superior services (4)

13 What caused me pain in India? (6)

16 School period to part and meet, trim (4,4)

17 In outskirts of Tewkesbury, wise woman is nervous (7)

18 Peer accorded honour? It depends on the person (3-4)

22 Fraudulently use first-ever royal honour, the French sleeping sound within (8)

25 Runs when the lady in blue turns up (6)

26 Apprentice taking part in party row (4)

27 Disposition to confuse priest with pony (10)

30 Jack's birds? (4)

31 Old age, in old times (3)

32 Tom, before a game of cards, has a sleep (6)

DOWN

1 Come to, having been left behind by the ship (4)

2 Hot stuff, the end of a Crimean battle (4)

3 Funnily, eighth chapter, abbreviated, is ultra-modern (4-4)

4 Bright red name tag, perhaps (7)

5 He is overly dramatic, distant, uninitiated and radical (6)

6 The sailor took Aunt Sal round some nasty looking creatures (10)

7 Silver, the French took before lunch, was shining brightly (6)

14 Why we put back that tree (3)

15 He outshone in fashion, at someone else's expense (2,3,5)

19 … abandoning a dunce outside – that is just part of the crowd (8)

20 One of those, making a sweet collection (3)

21 Commies hold French horn for some minutes (7)

23 Emergency appeal on a celebrated occasion (6)

24 One may be quick to apply the closure (6)

28 Arranges parts of court proceedings (4)

29 Amphibian in ghetto, adjusting (4)