CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Bit that confines primate with a low wall (7)

6. An intuitive feeling one has got the hump (5)

9. Repair, taking back some chambers of the heart (5)

10. The UN later turned to a noncombatant (7)

11. Toxic substance upsets nine after five (5)

12. Unmarried, was decapitated by a catamite (5)

13. The books show fifty different greeds (7)

15. Have high hopes of a church feature (6)

16. Take the guns from a French service branch (5)

18. A care taken in the preparation of betel nut (5)

20. May there be no such omen (5)

21. So now is about to pass out (5)

22. Former Cardinal might bring it to light (6)

25. Before work perhaps calls for coquille (7)

26. It’s sol-fa, a gin mixer (5)

27. Plants that produce an effect in the Channel Islands (5)

28. I’ve a car, acquired from covetousness (7)

29. Where to find H or C engraved, it being readily available (2,3)

30. What a buffalo is in good French (5)

31. Concentrated extract makes sense, half the rice being lost (7)

DOWN

1. Fine piece of ground for football box (7,4)

2. Ammunition needed for canons (6)

3. It never stops the hypothetical machine (9,6)

4. Man is last to turn out good luck charms (9)

5. May be half struggling with the gardeners’ baskets (5)

6. Liver has a scan: an alteration is seen in the blood channels (9,6)

7. How many Muses cut up the skittles? (8)

8. A barbarian who’s half in need of food (3)

14. The middle bit of an epergne (11)

17. The Waste Land poems can make nothing of it (9)

19. Sheen can be used as it heightens the effect (8)

23. A pound in weight, took one on in Old England (6)

24. For oneness, tiny u-turn is necessary (5)

27. Junior scout hasn’t quite made Havana country (3)