SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tears the pieces of film (6)

5 Arrange the escape well (6)

8 In the neighbourhood for a spell (5) 9 Club president, you say (6)

10 Going up to see what’s got the hounds so excited (6)

11 The same but different, due to suspicion (5)

14 Put the ruddy ring on the bird! (8)

16 He’s not lying (that’s easy!) (6)

18 Leave on the beach? (7,2,3,3) 20 Suppose it to mean ‘adopt’ (6) 22 ‘Storyville’ reveals keen perception (8) 25 Point the marquee out with conviction (5)

27 Up and away, as the saying goes (6) 28 I stuffed the bird for the dope (6) 29 Having seen running, you tail in, or follow (5)

30 Clarify, when you translate (6) 31 Amazed by how one calmed the crying baby? (6)

DOWN

1 Tearaway and a cheat (3-3)

2 There’s a lot to say for the location (4) 3 The dinar is currency on a holiday island (8)

4 Get away from the traffic (2,3,2,8)

5 Says there are upsets at the interior (6) 6 Thought one fellow had gone deaf (4) 7 Collect the fish caught (6)

12 Book transport (7)

13 For a while, expand (7)

15 In a beauty competition, they’re important, it seems (5)

17 A short time after the flat race (5)

19 Got back at three, about, and not alone (8)

20 ‘There’s a market,’ the stutterer said. ‘for the thing’ (6)

21 One of the two in here, perhaps, it is (6) 23 Was tired and, on the way back home, upset (6)

24 List you rely on (4)

26 Stop in port (4)