SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Put back the runabout in it when you arrive (4,2)

5 Wave from the chap playing skittles (6) 8 Showing one policeman in the drink is plenty (5)

9 A lot for the postman to carry (6)

10 Return holding a little present: a bird (6) 11 She’s broken down on the A9 (5)

14 How to conquer – the problem of the share-out? (8)

16 Is it the one in brown who’s the artist? (6) 18 ‘My pencil needs sharpening’? (9,6) 20 Going up with a bouquet (6)

22 Taking home the fish with the little bird (8)

25 About half of ‘9’ taken out from the basket (5)

27 Seemed afraid to say ‘Quieten down the row’ (6)

28 Plain crooked (6)

29 Being drunk in charge in it is allowed (5) 30 Hang out and shake a leg (6)

31 What was once a saucy crack (6)

DOWN

1 Given some money and dumped (6) 2 Unusual backspin (4)

3 Had the grand old man got one at all rattled (8)

4 At the top of page one of Crime And Punishment? (7,8)

5 Wish you hadn’t given the agent the wrong number (6)

6 From which the dairy-farmer can tell there will be bad weather? (4)

7 Hit back in your answer (6)

12 Be first one into the wharf? (7)

13 A trip south before the fall (7)

15 The man is making a tour of the clubs (5) 17 Part of the stage used for kitchen-sink dramas? (5)

19 Determined to get the note, therefore, on the instrument (8)

20 Laughing when you say you are exploited (6)

21 Grapple with the equipment (6)

23 Room to get a car in (6)

24 Sped ahead to see the islands (4)

26 A suit that may be just for show (4)