DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Deny uproar surrounding broadcast (6)

4 Marked impact he made (8)

10 Stand for what drama group take as an insult (9) 11 Encountered middle brow in the underground (5) 12 Lead position in field event (4,3)

13 Must somehow restrain head hunter after one’s narrow neck (7)

14 Flight attendant working up sweat by the road (7) 16 Naive politician trapped in a web of lies (6)

20 A beachfront way beyond the seas (6) 21 Strong flow rapidly emptied consulting room (7) 24 Gleeful basketball team adopted set play (7)

26 Call upon original big cheese in trouble (7) 28 Custom seen among anonymous agents (5) 29 Turn on guard, screw up and be left stranded (2,7) 30 Degenerate frayed edges, too (2,2,4)

31 Points to charms (6)

DOWN

1 Force to wear women’s clothing around university (6)

2 Sponsor to drink dark ale (9)

3 Youngster giving first of the wounded assistance (5) 5 Compound held abstract art in an array (6)

6 Poor man’s right to deprive of power (9)

7 Motto temporarily hides tribal emblem (5)

8 Costlier relics to confine to the monastery (8)

9 Keen to keep changing tune for a hundred (7) 15 Fatigue in vicious war is seen (9)

17 Peter and Paul, changing and unchanging (9) 18 Spread out airforce, lifting off centre before breather (3-5)

19 Pet hate of problem in IT support (7)

22 Baldheaded bird or dog (6)

23 Darkens quarter over the underworld (6)

25 Go ahead and jump with fright (5)

27 Take off from airfield (5)