SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sound you understand (6)

4 The bandits, in gangs, capturing the equipment (8)

10 Little jingle in the hair commercial? (7) 11 Right inside the old jar (7)

12 A small D for ‘dandelion’? (4)

13 Do, to stay alive (5,5)

16 Not having advanced so far in the instruction (6)

17 Can and are flying solo, anyhow (7) 20 Set and waiting (7)

21 A portly female and a priest (6)

24 Get loaded and become bossy (4,6) 25 Damages the hemblems! (4)

27 Not a depressed area: a centre of industry (3-4)

29 The soldier must be remanded again, the magistrate holds (7)

30 They’re teaching art, having a break when the siren goes off (8)

31 Stick by, having had trouble before (6)

DOWN

1 Leaving word (8)

2 Offers to take Kate out for something nice to eat (6,5)

3 On British game birds (4)

5 Told us again the country is in debt (8) 6 750 plus 250 dollars? (5,5)

7 Head of the lunatic asylum? (3)

8 Be furious and stand up when she emerges (6)

9 Irritated by ‘I have your cold heart’ (5) 14 Not now and again (7,4)

15 The certainty that comes with time (10) 18 A poor writer and a s-sycophant (8) 19 Maintain it’s your private domain (8) 22 Standing the art model outside in the passage (6)

23 With a post on either side, it’s ornamental (5)

26 A way in which one gets thirsty ... (4) 28 ... and the drink ‘23’ may finally provide (3)