SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Shoots bits of film (6) 5 Used one to turn left? (6)

8 She may be found in hell, enjoying herself (5) 9 It’s quite good of the man to return the money (6)

10 They drag people from the buildings (6) 11 The South American ‘Bird Islands’ (5)

14 Claim one was clad in the blue and brown (8) 16 That ‘Through the heart again’ is intended to frighten (6)

18 With might and main and every penny one possesses? (3,3,4,5) 20 Shares in a nursery (6)

22 ‘Because the miner’s trapped after the collapse’ he squeals (8) 25 Knowing it’s something pedlars have (5)

27 Go, begone, varlet! (6) 28 The soldiers have left, according to the news (6)

29 Change the clue about the right to have money (5)

30 Is counting on misleading one again? (6)

31 Return furious, days after, hurt (6)

DOWN

1 A mere skirmish and the man captured gets free (6)

2 There’s wine in the boot (4)

3 Is least worried about the direction when one leaves shore (4,4)

4 What the dratted bonfire is? (7,8)

5 All there can’t possibly squeeze into it (6)

6 At the far end, fish swim (4)

7 Waste the reward (6) 12 Where one has dreams of childhood (7) 13 Where the weapons are that our soldiers carry (7)

15 To do with a book on loan from the library (5) 17 Isn’t it time, about, that he turned up? (5) 19 Allowed or, alternatively, refused to let the fellow in (8) 20 Gelatin, for instance, may be red (6)

21 Stops getting expensive seats (6) 23 Are evidently not empty. Bother! (6) 24 Drop, noisily, everything (4)

26 There’s a switch back to her (4)