CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Half the West positioned to the back of one’s head (7)
6. It is given over to the levy demanded by the church (5)
9. Open country at one time at Number Ten (5)
10. Disorderly accumulation of fifty in a boat (7)
11. I am wrong to leave the perfect insect (5)
12. Aluminium that is nitrogen-incompatible (5)
13. Say it in words to make it go quickly (7)
15. One doing it wrong in violet-blue (6)
16. It’s not this top of the cake one is happening to remark (5)
18. What’s left of the right is left in the ice-breaker (5)
20. A man is placed aback if in a state (3,2)
21. Complaint that is right to be treated by family doctor (5)
22. Reddish-brown S American monkey with an after-part (6)
25. With third wire of three shown with advertisement (7)
26. At which to drink a sort of anaesthetic (5) 27. Play the doctor with his association in the States (5)
28. Turn that is to come to nothing in the womb (2,5)
29. Make butter run after central heating is on (5)
30. Have to have a yen to be poor (5)
31. Finish up with a smaller amount: it never stops (7)
DOWN
1. Set tar chore to organise for best effect (11)
2. Walks heavily round slum with police constable (6)
3. Reading of own emotion into nature sadly inadequate? Wrong! (8,7)
4. Sound defeat may be foolhardy in object (9)
5. In a taxi, is given over to computer language (5)
6. In inadequate supply on hot night, under a different guise (4,2,3,6)
7. Cistercian role is up to dealing out tips (8)
8. The self that takes a trip to inflate selfopinion (3)
14. Concise but comprehensive co-op: mind use that’s made of it (11)
17. Indication of course to indulge one going east (9) 19. Can read or otherwise relate it (8)
23. A cunning plan to make one breathe with difficulty (6)
24. Reconnaissance plane with nothing in the tail (5)
27. Poet’s title ranked in judo (3)