Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS 1. Sorry it has to appear in cornet arrangemen­t (8)

5. Square peg, round hole if Tim’s put to it (6)

10. Allege it’s endlessly wrong, but lawful (5)

11. Made compulsory by the Yard, am not to be turned (9)

12. ‘The’ thing is to be printed in a newspaper (7)

13. In such teaching one has instinctiv­e knowledge (7)

14. About five hundred nudes disporting all at once (6)

16. It is not known to cause anger on the street to begin with (7) 19. An argument is quietly set in duet form (7)

21. Use it to pound out fewer than fifty pellets (6)

25. Give one some comfort at the key-desk of an organ (7)

26. Turn over, and it will show how big-headed one is (7) 28. Company meant to change: Sky? (9)

29. It holds a writer back and is void in law (5)

30. In making paints, add enough to make one sort of blue (6) 31. Half-year course seems to come unstuck with better half (8) DOWN 1. Everything turns up in the trees, and all fall down! (8)

2. Denied having a gun when in need (7)

3. What’s left is about a litre of rice pudding (5)

4. Meddle with me, and trap will be sprung (6)

6. There’s no life in a team in disorder (9)

7. Go, if not forming a basis for it (7)

8. Hearing a criminal case may be vexatious (6)

9. Install one lying thus for the public to honour (7)

15. Spying on a pig, see it move about (9)

17. In deepest confusion gets thoroughly wet (7)

18. Being AWOL, he might rest among the bucks (8)

20. Redoing it in a way one wouldn’t listen to (7)

22. Poseidon’s weapon tried out by the National Trust (7)

23. Makes shabby stocking-top and sleeve-ends (6)

24. With little science they can work out how it cuts (6)

27. What one is asked to pay by Patna initially on its product (5)

Previous solution

Across: 1. Spoilsport 6. Stag 10. Railway carriage 11. Aftermath 12. Dross13. Mince 15. Tippet 19. Charon 20. Toque 23. Swoon 24. Satisfied

26. Perpetual motion 27. Tire 28. Paralysers.

Down: 1. Sarcasm 2. Omitting 3. Lower 4. Paymaster 5. Roach 7. Teapoy 8. Greaser 9. Gradient 14. Enhanced 16. Panatella 17. Aquiline 18. Cesspit 21. Endings 22. Horror 24. Sauna 25. Stony.

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