SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The rest is translated from English prose (6)

4 Nuts you have at Christmas (8)

10 The dish looked to be pickled (3-4) 11 Find me hiding in mottled tree (7) 12 River Dee overflowing the grass (7) 13 A bid made to run an hour faster (4,6) 16 Force is no longer wrong (6)

17 Led epic voyage with little support (7) 20 Dad’s lying about the fuel (7) 21 Fabulous bird bowled over by clear trumpet (6)

24 Died having swallowed drink when depressed (10)

25 Care about port (4)

27 Goat vet trained to dance (7) 29 Finished a jolly sort of delivery (7) 30 Put down urge to drink (8)

31 Hunter to break up search (6)

DOWN

1 Peg appears under par following the soldier’s remarks (8)

2 Give members an order (7,4)

3 Dead flower (4)

5 Person writing explosive news stories? (8) 6 Rival’s cut-price motto (10)

7 One’s over-age (3)

8 Pool talk (6)

9 Improvised over an unfinished wine commercial (2,3)

14 Top form (6,5)

15 Property owner’s giving support to rioter’s being sorted out (10)

18 People lacking faith in Castro’s following (8)

19 It’s cold right in the middle of a ship (8) 22 Sayings of modern times (6)

23 Second man to swallow the fruit (5) 26 Heal wound of Rachel’s sister (4) 28 Bigwig giving 5 to 1 on ‘Pinhead’ (3)