CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Funny sort of colic am upset by (7) 6. Some, tragically, returned to the smoke (5) 9. Sound system for a duo, I might put it (5) 10. The smallest grain starts up malaise (7) 11. Lamblike but full of useful content (5) 12. Mali’s involvement with the Muslim world (5) 13. Chicken Livorno (7) 15. An invisible translation one wasn’t prepared for (6) 16. Which sound can a sorceress make? (5) 18. It makes a super reward for a pugilist (5) 20. It rose into being a Welsh dynasty (5) 21. Miss Varden used to stir clothes in the washtub (5) 22. Feast one kingly egghead (6) 25. Fancy hedging riot? Pay out! (7) 26. First word of the Inferno, nothing else (5) 27. Breath so held at getting into bed (5) 28. Wind is backing: fabulous bird joins the firm (7) 29. Might aim at a family on the fiddle (5) 30. Linger, looking black (5) 31. Use rust to replace stitching (7) DOWN 1. Old giraffe arrived and spotted cat (11) 2. Fellows mature in household management (6) 3. Shared riches, time for the second Monday in March (12,3) 4. Mind a tale that can be built up in layers (9) 5. Objects of love assume solid form (5) 6. Sense of belonging in local group: Scotch, say (9,6) 7. Billy, Nanny and the kids represent his charges (8) 8. Bream is not the right sort of fish (3) 14. Like his and her and your song, could it be? (11) 17. This also one suffers with bad breath (9) 19. Sign in hotel to get riser confused (8) 23. What sort of partner for ballerina can Red be? (6) 24. Remove from the table a sort of soup (5) 27. The racket a flying fox makes (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 7. Take it to heart 8. Embrocation 12. Mingle 14. Ornate 16. Deluge 18. Attire 19. Harmonising 23. Monkeyjackets Down 1. Lace 2. Herb 3. Stroke 4. Potato 5. Peri 6. Grin 9. Manilla 10. Ovation 11. Cede 12. Mode 13. Lag 15. Rot 17. Eponym 18. Animal 19. Hoop 20. Rake 21. Inky 22. Gate