SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Offer to buy the lot (7,3)

8 Savoir-faire is not English (6)

9 Cut the day before and put in the refrigerator (4)

10 Unlined? (5,5)

11 Loaded and got going (3)

13 Love animals, we’re told (4)

14 Delude only to solace (7)

15 Telling the soldier to shut up would be ill-advised (4)

17 The flower festival hasn’t started (5) 20 Ads for pants (5)

22 What told them the reaper was coming? (4)

24 Catch going back into the vessel, being brave (7)

25 From outside comes the cry of an animal (4)

27 A natural food crank? (3)

28 Get into more suitable clothes: you’ll have to, if hillclimbing (6,4)

29 Having the cockney stop round to get the singer (4)

30 Alters to: “Stops grabbing me” (6)

31 Is a crooked bookmaker and makes more money (4,6)

DOWN

1 They get on with the lodgers (8)

2 Watch teacher marking the papers (6) 3 He’s ordering a dish (7)

4 Think there’s a gap by the tree (5)

5 Miss Bloom (4)

6 Being poor is really rotten (5,3)

7 Being first in line does upset one (8) 12 Bark “Break!” (4)

14 Catch daily (4)

16 Help the British “14 Down” out, in retreat (4)

17 Made progress, which is by no means simple (8)

18 Twice let slip about the man, being a blabbermouth (4-4)

19 He left here to get the morning paper (4) 21 To be used by the patients ahead (8) 23 Carrying back the food, the animals amaze one (7)

25 Caught, but not with one’s pants down! (6)

26 Having a beer brought out as you do some work on the house? (5)

28 Amount to a mild reproof (4)