CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. A more angry shade of red (6) 8. This town is the oriental area, not the pottery (5) 9. Film shot will not be successful in the trophy (5-2) 11. Three painted panels used to try pitch out (8) 12. Show off a pen at the end of the week (5) 15. Caustic earth or fruit of the linden (4) 16. 1,009 to blend in (3) 17. So friendly to the drug-taker perhaps (4) 19. Shining with heat, it makes the law go wrong (5) 21. Rashness I met with, changing tyre (8) 24. At a previous time be recumbent in the rear perhaps (7) 25. It’s an alternative form of dye (5) 26. Sounding like cattle that come out first in the log (6) DOWN 2. Permit a driver under instruction to sound like a cow (5) 3. To unearth one Red isn’t complicated (8) 4. It was a party: can you put it to flight? (4) 5. Policeman in the Southeast has room to manoeuvre (5) 6. A very little can start to yawn (4) 7. It’s a party: can you beat it? (4) 10. Assert how it capered about (9) 12. Is there no other fish in Dover? (4) 13. There’s no going upstairs to bed here (8) 14. The crop of corn starts uncooked (4) 18. He’s an eccentric who will wind away at the engine (5) 20. Such a lot of water for canoe to negotiate (5) 21. Last of the draught to request a job (4) 22. Cat gets back up around a castle ditch (4) 23. It’s a boat, y’all hear? (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Valedictory 9. Agora 10. Ultrabasic 11. Hoist 12. Genteel 14. Act 15. Bear 16. Agnate 17. Vlei 21. Exit 22. Alcove 23. Pore 26. Gas 27. Trounce 29. Rumba 30. Pragmatism 31. Nudge 32. Deferential

Down 2. Amuse 3. Dor-beetle 4. Cobble 5. Obstacle 6. Yacht 7. Polite 8. Masterpiece 12. Grandparent 13. None 18. Ill-gotten 19. Tipstaff 20. Boon 24. Remedy 25. Stumer 26. Gaped 28. Comma