SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Little devil that created panic in the monastery? (4,6)

8 From the outset, everything hinges on her (6)

9 ‘He abandoned her, the snake!’ you say menacingly (4)

10 Also where you see the child has an aptitude for figures (2,8)

11 The whole of ‘is foyer? (3)

13 Trophies for gardeners? (4)

14 Blinking, blew into it (7)

15 You replaced it (4)

17 A possibly comic take off (5)

20 With a ‘Shucks’, takes back the rest (5)

22 Type one of the letters between R and U (4)

24 Isn’t out to get a tan in a short time (7)

25 Went round with Ted to get the table (4)

27 A light note (3)

28 Most of the meat the zoo gets? (5,5)

29 Most found tampered with and open (4) 30 Allow three-quarters of the Lebanese to go free (6)

31 Part of London you now carry a gun in (3,4,3)

DOWN

1 Be prominent among those who resist (5,3) 2 Leslie and Sidney developed the pictures (6)

3 The home that I built Jack is occupying (7) 4 The last of the veal and a can of tongue (5)

5 A U, perhaps, in ‘sour’ (4)

6 Again mean to take a stand, though there’s badinage (8)

7 How the hedgehog arrived from the pet shop? (6,2)

12 He sings, though an idiot, on key (4) 14 Produce a toy? (4) 16 He issues the invitations – a great many (4)

17 Leaves by a chute? (5,3)

18 Are beaten up it is true, holding out and being determined (8) 19 Outside you hear thunder (4)

21 About ten I count altogether (8)

23 Cheated and the weight went up on the new diets (7)

25 Be told again he’s hiding in the back (6) 26 To oblige the police, perhaps (5)

28 The records one gets from the trunk (4)