CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
No 17,288
ACROSS
1 After modelling, both bear dressing gown (8) 5 Wading bird
fluttering at cove (6) 9 Reg lying for a change in a cautious manner (8) 10 Old students from a liberal university in Malta in retreat (6) 12 Declare grave risks?
Not altogether! (4) 13 Daring kiss made in
traffic jam? (10) 15 New pranks I’ll break up round rare garden feature, say (4,9) 19 Airy doctrines needing revision? That’s optional (13) 23 Job in residence? (10) 25 Revered figure by ordinary area in classical portico (4) 28 Hardened health worker with no end of patients in papers (6) 29 Journalist aware of note about militants’ leader in Canadian city (8) 30 Longing in husband and a son to find African mammals (6) 31 A chart’s devised about minute thing used in judo? (5,3)
DOWN
1 Lion, perhaps, starts to breed in general captivity and thrive (3,3) 2 Colour shown in painting,
exceptionally (5) 3 Regretted odd parts of
route over day (4) 4 Bad-tempered bachelor with the Italian facing financial debts (7) 6 Highly rate bend in area
between hills (5) 7 Cab merely diverted in
Surrey town (9) 8 Attempt to contain quarrel
exposing bishop for deceit (8) 11 Controversy in prison (4) 14 Royal’s first person in here,
essentially, for large jug (4) 15 Acute loss at war for
a hopeless ideal (4,5) 16 Greek character has
broken hip (3) 17 Approaching Tyneside
on a river (4) 18 Reprimand male over
entering Danish ground (8) 20 U.S. rock band additionally
acquiring lyricist lately (4) 21 Working arrangement requested by a customer? (2,5) 22 Thing that attracts rising figure to support publication (6) 24 Religious depiction that is
kept in educational body (5) 26 Carry money as
symbolic item (5) 27 Mix cast (4)