SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Getting out of position ( 10) 8 Not as bad as being a gambler ( 6) 9 Promise made to a hothead ( 4) 10 Get on the wagon, John ( 10) 11 Breakfast is prompt ( 3) 13 I walk outside, satisfied ( 4) 14 The arrogance made the two unions have a change of heart ( 7) 15 He’s anything but ignorant, though green ( 4) 17 What you said to keep the agitator quiet for a bit? ( 5) 20 Mad about cricket? ( 5) 22 Always at a quarter to five returns ( 4) 24 Let you speak audibly ( 7) 25 What makes one think you care ( 4) 27 Down for breakfast, perhaps ( 3) 28 “Figure” is the word hunted out ( 3,7) 29 Thought the L was missing in “faultless” ( 4) 30 Started again, perhaps, with a clean sheet? ( 6) 31 Having a superior brain? ( 4- 6)

DOWN

1 Get as far as going around for a wigging ( 8) 2 Pickled olives often are ( 6) 3 What gave you an irresistible urge to go over to the chest? ( 7) 4 Will no longer go back, one notices ( 5) 5 Providing he’s turned in ( 4) 6 Then I distributed around about a quarter, as is natural ( 8) 7 How one suspiciously tasted the spicy cake? ( 8) 12 Unutterably stupid? ( 4) 14 Where we’ve got to in the reckoning ( 4) 16 Afraid it will take a day ( 4) 17 On which flying fish sleep? ( 3- 5) 18 Telling one the story when taken back into the circle ( 8) 19 The figure you have reduced ( 4) 21 Again was inclined to take it when one made the offer ( 8) 23 Said one wouldn’t put the lights out again ( 7) 25 Left in a dream, to stew the fruit ( 6) 26 Note the weight ( 5) 28 Drive back nine at a time ( 4)