DOUBLE CROSSWORD

Yesterday’s solutions: Across:

- 1 Ragamuffin. 6 Magi. 10 Corsair. 11 Satanic. 12 Cafe. 13 Means test. 16 Unerotic. 17 Errata. 19 Snappy. 21 Endorsee. 24 Installer. 25 Taco. 28 Sesotho. 29 Solidus. 30 Skye. 31 Melancholy.

- 1 Racecourse. 2 Giraffe. 3 Moan. 4 Forget it. 5 Insane. 7 Amnesia. 8 Inch. 9 Stateroom. 14 Hot potato. 15 Ravenously. 18 Undersea. 20 Amnesty. 22 So-and-so. 23 Alcove. 26 Asis. 27 Bloc.

Down: ACROSS

CRYPTIC 1 Played set within the professional musician’s rate (6)

5 Half mast supposedly eaten by sea creature (7) 10 Number observed to keep happening (9)

11 Girl with an odd manor? (5) 12 Tore off and radically trimmed blue material (7) 13 Stomach turned by constrictor taking front end of the ship (7)

14 Misses turn and rests fretfully (9)

16 Set aside a road levy in return (5)

18 Sovereign has a straight edge (5)

20 Spell out wild rants behind time (9) 23 Justification to remove one’s palings? (7)

24 Ugly American to follow veil with stony heart (7) 26 Sheepish climber goes after egg (5)

27 Carpet church behind a cross (9)

28 Magnate manufacturing ID label (4,3)

29 Obscure study about Biblical vessel (6)

DOWN

2 Rival casually swallowed ten pieces of pasta (7)

3 Part of Egypt is in a mess (5)

4 Love repeat business to work machinery (7)

5 Short time record of a meeting (7)

6 Tiny masses growing on nag and sheep (9)

7 Hard work to keep rum cocktail in ferment (7) 8 Former law, to be precise (5)

9 Fool arranged roses for the taxman (8)

15 Binding twine and mending net (9)

17 Attempt to cover up a ruse after arranging finances (8) 19 Radical politics disrupting film set (7)

20 Salesman absorbed by the bite of a Chinese delicacy (7)

21 Results of smoking made doctors mortified (7) 22 Missionary position crossed with beer (7)

23 Road leading into dismal swamp (5)

25 Opening to receive new head for transplant patient (5)