CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Setting up of a company to put rats out (5-2)

6. Is down to make a duff stroke at golf (5)

9. Maurice would get entangled in his music (5)

10. A bacterium that may come with broken rib (7) 11. Finger the list of contents (5)

12. Cast having full enjoyment of pleasure (5)

13. Lovable as I am, Abel got upset (7)

15. The emotional tone of a section of melody (6) 16. Bird coming out of tree around end of Spring (5) 18. Notions that could be set aside (5)

20. Turn out always on the first Tuesday (5)

21. Doris’s native order to an architect (5)

22. Use half of them as a game manoeuvre (6)

25. A layer of rust mat might acquire (7)

26. Fish prepared by tutor (5)

27. The credit one gives me for felony (5)

28. Could be in air of Spanish peninsula (7)

29. He refuses to conform with lion in revolt (5)

30. It is multiplied by a broadsheet daily (5)

31. Flag officers newly commissioned in the Navy (7) DOWN

1. He feels for one, so how could he miss party out? (11)

2. Dye it’s clear children will use (6)

3. They sort out the difficulties that bother the gunmen (7-8) 4. Liked better to be given promotion (9)

5. Be of service to one in turning lava over (5)

6. Black boxes for fipple flutes put below stairs (6,9)

7. Duel with Aunt may move in waves (8)

8. Vixen’s mate may baffle one (3)

14. Legal documents wielded by musicians and surgeons (11) 17. Revolving gate used until rest pass through it (9)

19. Trading centre in Rome I’m up to redesigning (8)

23. Pearl necklace one may find in train (6) 24. Favourite pursuit of a small falcon (5) 27. Bed available in a cottage hospital (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Encumbrance 8. Lighters 9. Vain 10. Alter 13. Rose 16. Unit 17. Less 18. Asks 20. Strop 24. Limb 25. Cautious 26. Marking time

Down 2. Nags 3. Until 4. Barge 5. Never 6. Pleasurable 7. Intersperse 11. Traps 12. River 14. Obey 15. Wink 19. Sober 21. Train 22. Octet 23. Worm