CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Swoop on sleazy bar and

come a cropper (4-4)

5. Snub engineers accompa

nying expert (6)

9. Father inspires top class judge? Beyond question (4-4)

10. Hands on a Hebridean

island (6)

12. Old PM’s English study (4) 13. Their mum’s troubled about a joint complaint (10)

15. Gathering together around a Greek inferno (13)

19. Golfing nerves unsettled

sovereign (4-9)

23. Top-drawer sixth form?

(5-5)

25. Group of four Dubliners

pick this up in Pakistan (4) 28. Ample individual backs

posh Grand Hotel (6)

29. It’s just horrendous not

having a leader (8)

30. Crops earnings (6)

31. Tacky notice concerning

books he brought in (8)

Down

1. Runs finally secured crick

et trophy (6)

2. Church caretaker doesn’t

finish border (5)

3. Bailiff, dismissing trouble,

causes strike (4)

4. Top officer repaired

alarms around hospital (7) 6. More run at Lord’s (5)

7. Reliable French individu

al’s excellent in cast (9)

8. Scrap female garment in

tatters (8)

11. Rare wildebeest raised

level (4)

14. Lift arms to get cosy (4)

15. U.S. mobile, one taken out

of crumpled cellophane (9) 16. Cut short paper up (3)

17. A brief ruler’s similar (4) 18. Cleverly carved statue on

banks of Liffey (8)

20. Very old officer’s unit (4) 21. Cancel unruly diners,

about 100 (7)

22. Front of stage in the dark?

Obviously not (6)

24. Bitter fellow’s left firm (5) 26. Ransack Winchester

maybe (5)

27. Female nurses love for

trainer perhaps (4)