SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Give a hand to a Scotsman on the road (6) 5 Not the drinks one longs for? (6)

8 Lift this out, to find nothing inside (5) 9 The coin and the little green ball you put inside (6)

10 Round taken by the meat man (6)

11 Shot across and helped the gardener (5) 14 Be dictated to and remove it (4,4)

16 Is to set out round about six, for a change (6)

18 Barking, more or less (7,8)

20 Look after the material and patch it up (6)

22 Increases when the relations get possession of the cut gem (8)

25 A procedure you may find boring (5) 27 To cool one after something that’s burnt one’s mouth? (6)

28 Nick is the star performer again in it (6) 29 Mark in a funny way, to start with (5) 30 Pet, that fifty percent cut will create a shortage (6)

31 Has been poured into the crack, but it’s no good (6)

DOWN

1 Hint it might be cat fur (6)

2 Stood the wine (4)

3 Drawing the daily fuel (8)

4 Put all resources into the oil drilling business? (4,4,7)

5 In the outset, the dog, Rover, got dull food (6)

6 When Miss Right turns up, say how wonderful she is (4)

7 Guards the ship and the sailors in it (6) 12 I began breaking the beginner in: a foreigner (7)

13 All those troubles that are little ones? (7) 15 Only the name and number (5)

17 In my opinion, it’s rising, too (5)

19 Is it coddled by the gardener? (3-5) 20 Hurried by the police, being bad (6) 21 Hard to train, is planted in the garden (6) 23 Delighted by the railway guard (6)

24 Go with her, lady: she’s a singer (4) 26 Pickle, or where it may be eaten (4) Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: - 1 Full figure. 6 Alec. 10 Charred. 11 Glutton. 12 Steamboat. 13 Lance. 14 Liven. 15 Searching. 17 Forage cap. 20 Notes. 21 Cream. 23 Struck out. 25 Chianti. 26 Produce. 27 Even. 28 Protesters.

Down: - 1 Facts. 2 Leave over. 3 Firm management. 4 Godsons. 5 Regatta. 7 Latin. 8 Converges. 9 Fully conscious. 14 Life-cycle. 16 Introduce. 18 Cashier. 19 Parapet. 22 Exile. 24 Tiers.