Herald on Sunday

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. He has done the ton in ages (11)

9. To the time that unit turns left (5)

10. All-powerful men to point out (10)

11. Article on the Marines’ unit of heat (5)

12. North African people alter first vowel of hairdresse­rs (7)

14. Non-clerical way to prepare table (3)

15. There is some eroticism of the ear (4)

16. A king or ace NUT might have played (6)

17. Use a sort of hunting twin (4)

21. Almost long for time (4)

22. Journalist to ride around with (6)

23. Part of a regular church feature (4)

26. In Latin this represents a hiccough (3)

27. Feeble minded as to use icon, ROM can be put to (7)

29. There, taken back in a taxi, a plantain (5)

30. Live with crime when about fifty – and pasta (10)

31. Logo one devised for shelter in the cold (5)

32. Phrase to act out, representi­ng disaster (11) DOWN

2. Bring forth the go-ahead in woman (5)

3. Seemingly lived around Tyne perhaps (9)

4. How to stimulate our sea-change (6)

5. Love for the best ladies I’m seeking out (8)

6. Crazy about flavour of praline (5)

7. Testify to being there when internatio­nal is played (6)

8. Critical period of it: calm Circe created (11)

12. Drunken feasts one can hail a cab for (11)

13. Phoned for a ladder step (4)

18. Put one’s personal linen to too little use (9)

19. Crystal played for money in the casino (8)

20. Sort of gun that will amaze one (4)

24. One end of life’s journey raced about when around fifty (6)

25. I’m bats about the precincts (6)

26. Five replaced south in causing chaos (5)

28. A sea of whiskey (5)

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