Double Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 1 Leave out card when there's something fishy (8) 5 Fertile time for a female's main offspring (6) 10 Gone by all good original sources (3) 11 Retraced set procedure for an exclusive formula (5,6) 12 Provided turn with tank for one drops a line (9) 13 Calypso nicely diminished in sound (5) 14 Includes some of the aristocracy (6) 16 Unidentified cook and menu (7) 20 Celebrity trumps regular appearance of new company (5-2) 21 Roughly coil shreds of fabric (6) 24 Tips are falling out of hairnets (5) 26 Sketches on second tea set (9) 28 Crook mounts alibi after change of state (11) 29 Call friend back (3) 30 Margin for small returns in song (6) 31 Maybe a pun on peak backing in rowdy game (4,4) DOWN 1 Mobster was the dab hand behind babushka (8) 2 Chains of clubs (5) 3 Frequent flyer from black street crime (3-6) 4 Like some seafood when one's hot and sweaty! (6) 6 Levels two, four, six etc (5) 7 Ties green revolution to big game reserve (9) 8 Poster knocked into place in the end (6) 9 Bent angle in listing (7) 15 Can't hold all digits so it can't be held (9) 17 Publicity about Group One being out the window (9) 18 Escapee from African capital cornered in airfield (7) 19 Some flowers for wreathing brother, say, with large head, perhaps (8) 22 Cheat makes his appearance in prison room, mostly (6) 23 Knitted more in wool (6) 25 Destroyer took the lead from lavish outlay (5) 27 Like a bore on the original telephone dial mechanism (5)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS 1 Deadly form of food poisoning (8) 5 Sputum (6) 10 Large vase (3) 11 Fraternity (11) 12 One who gambols or romps (9) 13 Elk (5) 14 Sugary fluid produced by flowers (6) 16 Absent-minded daydream (7) 20 High fashion dressmaking (7) 21 Remains suspended in the air (6) 24 Criminal setting of a fire (5) 26 Worker who unloads ships (9) 28 Norway and Sweden (11) 29 Outward flow (3) 30 Speak in a low and indistinct voice (6) 31 Disaffect, estrange (8) DOWN 1 Of hair, puffed out (8) 2 Latin American ballroom dance (5) 3 Oil or grease (9) 4 Thickset (6) 6 Sultan's wives and concubines (5) 7 Make savings (9) 8 Mound of refuse, dunghill (6) 9 Asked as the price (7) 15 French bread roll (9) 17 Acquit (9) 18 Introduce to the public (7) 19 Congregate (8) 22 Price demanded by kidnappers (6) 23 Beetle that infests grain (6) 25 Bump with the elbow (5) 27 Musical theatre (5)