CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Blood substance lets her cool off (11)

9. Show exaggerated feelings but meet nothing in exchange (5)

10. A wanton woman, Violet, turning hog after fifty (5-1-4)

11. Press one’s suit as a sort of card (5)

12. Blame turn forbidden in screen adaptation (7)

14. How could such a Burmese knife fit on an elephant’s back? (3)

15. Sounds like steak one consumed around noon (4)

16. A very little thing second hand comes up to (6)

17. Make the tea for the railways and we will come back (4)

21. Use pencil to prepare fowl (4)

22. It may give one access to a dish (6)

23. Window frame has to turn to follow the sun (4)

26. Put one off with a small pocket (3)

27. Flower name is misapplied by individual (7)

29. Makeup for a dragon in heraldry (5)

30. Concreted fields do one a turn if one is included (10)

31. Too close to be tipsy? (5)

32. Got a lot together with Decca: mutual arrangement (11).

DOWN

2. Own about a quid and make 5Op of it (5)

3. Spent taxes due around 5th March (9)

4. With which to dig out an argument in the let-up (6)

5. Asks for the same again red rose could be about right (8)

6. Blood-sucker finding shelter with the church (5)

7. Trajan’s perhaps may be personal in the press (6)

8. Ornament in middle of epic after recent change to the East (6-5)

12. Condole with one Scrooge in a Comet disaster (11)

13. Number with which one is accepted in the Northeast (4)

18. Marvellous way to drown fuel spillage (9)

19. Phenol, bar of which may be used in tummy upset (8)

20. Vivacity starts brilliant run in operetta (4)

24. Plant one will spend lots of money on, losing pounds (6)

25. Haphazard way one managed to cheat Mafia head (6)

26. Holiday in Italy? Fates ruled it otherwise (5)

28. As good as a wink at glamorous top in unclothed figure (5)