SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Turn on with a whip (6)

4 Sweets for meals, perhaps, on wheels! (8) 10 What, in couture, it’s a feat to swathe on a fat back? (7)

11 Silently felt sorry for, or said something (7)

12 It’s right by the river, or by the sea (4) 13 Solving – the problem of how to escape? (7,3)

16 Absolutely recover, holding the point (6) 17 Left in “amiable bumpkin” (7) 20 Intolerant and, when I came by, in bed (7)

21 The envoy, in general, has a gun (6) 24 Deign to get down to study (10)

25 Takes part and behaves oneself (4)

27 To the doctor, I harp on about the drug (7)

29 Worry about nothing, ourselves, but make whoopee (7)

30 Spot a trap set inside and disperse (8) 31 Subsequently getting about a quarter back payment for the house (6)

DOWN

1 Single out and mean to organise a test round (3,5)

2 It means having a prearranged pattern, dope! (2,9)

3 Eat a cold chop (4)

5 Let out and in (8)

6 Apply to the department chief in charge of publicity? (10)

7 Fish-stands for Oswald (3)

8 The proper key, inserted instead, turned (6)

9 Mother’s the one to find a partner for you (5)

14 Unimportant to a bookkeeper? (2,2,7) 15 Gloat deplorably over the three, routed totally (10)

18 With a French sea shanty, heís in business! (8)

19 Is it R-A-I-N-Y? (3,5)

22 Doesn’t do well, like the ne’er-do-wells (6)

23 Say it’s rotten and fell it (5)

26 In real trouble when the silly lob drops out (4)

28 Blame and turn mean (3)