THE BS CROSSWORD #3125

ACROSS:

8 Better back out of the quarrel Bond started (6) 9 Card game played in bloody surroundings (3) 10 They may do an about turn, as it’s all for the Times (4) 11 Another chess victory for a ship’s officer (6,4) 12 Unrefined female mad with lust (4) 13 Head soldier returns to university at Los Angeles, right? Something about his eye (6) 16 Activity that makes oxen tire (8) 17 Bent like Oliver and Edward (7) 18 Where fast holds are (7) 22 A solemn offering, old boy? No

it, almost all, was returned (8) 25 Endlessly debate an event in The Field (6) 26 Want to yell “O!” - that would make it a shade cowardly (4) 27 Sin’s ascent is spoilt by such low frequency (10) 30 Bowed instrument, first observed in 650 (4) 31 It’s cut off from the envelope (3) 32 Love to get a call while in a canoe ? (6)

DOWN:

1 High church cover (4) 2 After a century oil distribution could inspire historians (4) 3 Fancy work that seems English to the French (8) 4 Relieved not to be professional in the New Deal (7) 5 Sebastian returns bearing something from the Tertiary Period (6) 6 Digs for convalescents? (3-7) 7 Singer needing transport to get on the American circuit (6) 14 A lower stock unit (3) 15 Hang around whale’s tail at sea (4,1,5) 19 Having to show one’s ability may be a check to one getting on (8) 20 Little money being thus acquiring upmarket initiative (3) 21 Miserable one abroad, a dwarf (7) 23 Irish girl I’d put on a ship (6) 24 Home alone, one slipped into comfy shoe perhaps (6) 28 “Service not included” is the usual thing (4) 29 A quarter aim to entrance (4)