SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Love theatres we redesigned (10) 8 Foreign commander of the BEF (6) 9 Prepare to sail to a Soviet port (4) 10 She’s perfectly all right (5,5) 11 Child’s drink (3) 13 “Ruler and worker should unite,’ he philosophised (4) 14 Screen of lacework by a little girl (7) 15 Strike over at leading shipyard (4) 17 Overexercises figure to be unattractive (5) 20 Place it over a Royal Academician’s crown (5) 22 A doctor’s overseen the body (4) 24 Play around figure in an exhibition of pictures (7) 25 Fish to be eaten before a fruit turnover (4) 27 In the clear open country (3) 28 Article boy copies out, being a forward child (10) 29 Lover’s knot, say (4) 30 The language of food (6) 31 Embarrassed, lied to boy over what would be of use to the surveyor (10)

DOWN

1 Acquire a degree of learning (8) 2 One way diplomacy is still of a piece (6) 3 Sprays Sir Geoffrey right inside the ship (7) 4 Foe seen among the old men returning (5) 5 Bearing Jack over the water (4) 6 Hate a man for breaking the curse (8) 7 To right wrong a cake is presented (8) 12 The flier’s a key man (4) 14 Figure having to push hard to become a top athlete (4) 16 A drink over in Tuscany (4) 17 Sweet-smelling, rode around fast (8) 18 For Babel to appear chaotic is not unlikely (8) 19 English boy out in front position (4) 21 Athlete at university coming second (6-2) 23 The poet Housman when about to begin “The Goddess” (7) 25 Coaches run by British Rail (6) 26 I follow nice restless natives of Ancient Britain (5) 28 Take half June off to do sport (4)