CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Partners with a house up for partial sale? (6) 7 On which there’s not a score of waterfowl? (4,4) 8 A football side?

(4) 10 She lives with her mother, that is (6) 11 Coming from Dave, perhaps, at the theatre (6) 14 Smart, yes, but he’s a bit of a fool on the quiet (3) 16 She possibly takes one in hand (5) 17 Legal right to take a different line (4) 19 Is she disheartened when addressed as royalty? (5) 21 Merry character

in operetta? (5) 22 It’s no good, at some stage, being worn (5) 23 Cosy little place in Vine Street (4) 26 Traditional supporter of the board of education (5) 28 Just the chap to make hay? (3) 29 A hound will follow it all the way up (6) 30 Being catty, could get you feeling no end upset! (6) 31 Keep going and spilling the salt (4) 32 It is written that in the course of strange rites, you eat (8) 33 Three months of discontent, maybe? (6) DOWN 1 Mount a vehicle with me and a new driver (6) 2 As a drinker, what’s yours? (6) 3 A border of bright red geraniums (4) 4 Runner having to start waddling up a mountain! (7) 5 Women capable of charming results from a

cold cooker (5) 6 Maybe she tied the knot at Southend? (5) 8 Union member

(4) 9 Go for a quick

drink (3) 12 Energetic

figures (3) 13 If varnished, they won’t go rusty (5) 15 Appeal for the benefit of a dunderhead in prison (5) 18 One thinks of them being upset when put aside (5) 19 Centrally placed on the motorway to Land’s End (3) 20 Female with a

pass key? (3) 21 They’re apt to be cracked when the law is broken by eccentrics (7) 22 Be heard as

a buzzer (3) 23 Old sailor half involved in wrestling? (6) 24 Name the article you prepare for press (4) 25 After “26 Down”, could it shake the seismologist a bit? (6) 26 This dirty world

of ours (5) 27 Prison officer’s

pay? (5) 28 It’s dried, only to be made wet (3) 30 The noisy fellow imitated birds! (4)