CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Tough task, left running hotel in France once (4,4)

5. Get back what Yorkshire couple nicked (6)

9. Money’s wasted defending doctor’s diagnosis perhaps (8)

10. Sweet old fellows occupy part of golf course (6)

12. Steer round big city stone (4)

13. One hopes to convert vital genes out of sequence (10)

15. Old lady on her feet im presses duke, showing off (13)

19. Trained visitors lacking time to make intelligent estimate (8,5)

23. Boy about to be brought in to smarten up stalag (6,4)

25. Donkey heading off for a

spin (4)

28. Work hard in attempt to win prize (6)

29. Short piece worried nation in South Africa (8)

30. Hurry female across a street (6)

31. Fine land borders both sides (3,5)

Down

1. The French Number 1’s revolting injury (6)

2. Baby goat (5)

3. Collect woman’s daughter (4)

4. Cold snooty SW county upset about motorway (7)

6. Some developers secretly run away together (5)

7. Old fellow moves house across main road, out of bounds (3,6)

8. Rebuilt pier gets widespread admiration (8)

11. Can university put up section of building? (4)

14. Silver found in South America? It’s a long story (4)

15. Surplus in America around Ohio’s tacky (9)

16. Small fool lifted piece of

turf (3)

17. Call for northern river to be raised (4)

18. Report brief dispute between Germany, Spain and Switzerland (8)

20. Chase horse and suchlike first (4)

21. Okra applied to one large oral complaint (7)

22. Despot’s partial to petty ranting (6)

24. Old revolutionary hoards rare pigment (5)

26. Very keen director general hosts one in Glasgow (5)

27. It’s just somewhere with amusements (4)