SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Get up the spare one inside when they crack up (6)

4 On the backstreets I take Rolf to see the shops (8)

10 Managed to travel by, to an Eastern port (7) 11 My own one turns out to be the one named (7)

12 Blow! It’s only one of a pair! (4)

13 A decrease in the number of accidents on the tightrope? (7,3)

16 Would there be a torn label outside showing “From Ceylon”? (3-3)

17 It is, to a degree, difficult to get by the guard dog (7)

20 Results of photographing something from below it? (7)

21 Wants one to admit one is critical (6)

24 Very embarrassed by having been a char? (7,3)

25 For the record, by midweek you’ll have the weapon (4)

27 Remove some of the burden, to make it fairer (7)

29 In the Porter medley, one should prove entertaining (7)

30 With confidence, sneers nastily at us, floundering (8)

31 Held up, didn’t go (6)

DOWN

1 A hanger-on at “1 Across” perhaps? (8) 2 Many would agree ice cream for dessert is very pleasant (2,4,2,3)

3 Before long, the child is catching the ball (4) 5 Proof that one pencil sharpener is way ahead of the others? (4,4)

6 Thinking it’s odd one horse can enter (10) 7 Heater to dry divers (3)

8 Look away when you say goodbye at the airport, perhaps? (3,3)

9 Available if you knock for it? (2,3)

14 An annual event for the politicians in power (6,5)

15 Used to be nothing, but has become a place of importance (10)

18 Were they sent off to a farm to learn something? (8)

19 Agreed the seas tend to be rough (8) 22 Balances the plates (6)

23 Tending to start nervously (5)

26 Try, though upset at the time (4)

28 Fish some old thing from a bag (3)