CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. He’s starting to put spirit and nitrogen in the bitter (8) 5. Loves a party with almost all the others (6)

10. No easy feeling sounds as if it looks like gold (5) 11. Mailing includes half your attitude assumption (9) 12. To be sinuous is to intend Communist reversal (7) 13. Working with the coal, he might roll with ice (7) 14. Bad smell of sink-top with fish (6)

16. Crack fathead is certain to make (7)

19. Theatre advertising – cooing, too? (7)

21. To be a cadger, Peg’s somehow about to get on (6) 25. Regard spectre, shaken (7)

26. Wouldn’t melt when in the red (7)

28. Vehicle for fifty per cent of the racecourse? (4-5) 29. Blood channel observed back in the beat, roaring (5) 30. To wish to back part of the order is educational (6) 31. Be liable to the opposite of overlay? (8)

DOWN

1. One with twice the trouble and strife? (8) 2. Forbidding expert to pull faces (7)

3. Remarked Edward’s absence (5)

4. Send overseas what used to be fortified wine (6) 6. Duplicates and bends in two (7,2)

7. Even more precipitation for a Mediterranean Prince? (7) 8. Sweet American going up to Mr Cooper perhaps (6) 9. Spiritualistic medium will mistakenly spy on the elegant (7) 15. He gathers things like a prayer, alternatively (9) 17. Otherwise at home on the farm (7)

18. Nutter may lead the legal process (4-4)

20. Is rude to us, turning in variety of lints (7)

22. Airway lost in right dispersal (7)

23. Rounded up, he had gone after a circular bit (6)

24. In a gun, all right, it’s bust (6)

27. Some snooker might implicate the innocent (5)