SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Providing you do it in a lissom kind of way (6)

4 Caused to blunder on one point, was exposed (8)

10 First the nail broke when I hammered it in (7)

11 They shoot the children (7)

12 A blotchy something in monsieur’s boot (4)

13 So nine are squashed flat; nine out of 63 (3,2,5)

16 Made a fuss, but gave the job to (4,2) 17 The gentle sound of clacking tongues (7) 20 Just say to the people, “No, it is wrong” (7)

21 Anyway, L ... Doone was a twit! (6) 24 Catch fish by magic? (4,1,5)

25 He might give you two lovely black eyes! (4)

27 There are indeed, levies to be returned in them (7)

29 Where one learnt to start courting girls (7)

30 People passing time shopping? (8) 31 Drunk as Cherry was at the cocktail party (6)

DOWN

1 Holding the cask, walks up to get the scraps (8)

2 The main reasons why an estate agent does good business? (5,6)

3 Posed with the face up-tilted (4)

5 In pouring rain gets into port (8)

6 Tax is the devil and soon it has one ruined (10)

7 Dessert at the ornithologists’ dinner? (3) 8 A request for music to accompany the medication? (6)

9 Tree that doesn’t sound much to look at (5)

14 Why, logically, you can’t be expected to get a new licence? (5,6)

15 Produced an abridged version, as agreed (10)

18 Gracious about the ridiculous poems he writes (8)

19 Father Reed’s mistaken; it’s the other way around (8)

22 Nicks the music (6)

23 The coal that’s left in the bag (5)

26 Catch up a bit (4)

28 A run near the end of the game (3)