CROSSWORD

Across

1 Doctor goes to hospital to get dry fabric (6)

4 Cryptic clues he’d put in the agenda (8)

9 Officer with a song in his heart - something catchy (6)

10 Record the sound of Beethoven’s fifth (8)

12 Scored a point - could be winning (4)

13 Work to make some dough (5)

14 Determined to show one’s natural skill (4)

17 Happy to arrange the right deal (5-7)

20 Captains confused by mishap and stress (5,7)

23 She will return to take a course (4)

24 Tour arranged about midmarch in Cornish city (5)

25 Transport will be back at eleven (4)

28 How a masseur might get by (3,5)

29 Some nuts and raisins for a girl (6)

30 Gives some support for regular girlfriends (8)

31 Play - but cheat (6)

Down

1 Spot a complicated clue but it’s of little matter (8)

2 Get heir a settlement he expects (8)

3 Rain spread around the country (4)

5 Odd thing to say (6,6)

6 Tie up about ten and depart (4)

7 A wrong guess about customs (6)

8 They happen to upset Steven (6)

11 Mine can peter out with such lack of restraint (12)

15 Feeling irritable? (5)

16 It’s most desirable to enclose a wild animal (5)

18 Held back free trade when in the red (8)

19 Reckon the deceased’s property is about one thousand (8)

21 Their coats are lined (6)

22 Fifty-one competent and responsible (6)

26 Left to wander idly round, but happy (4)

27 Laid out in Salvador (4)