crYPTic crossword
ACROSS:
1 Asperity. 5 Rapids. 9 Wild boar. 10 Editor. 12 Year. 13 Snapdragon. 15 Trade unionist. 19 Mother country. 23 Steam irons. 25 Isle. 28 Heehaw. 29 Wrapping. 30 To date. 31 Teenager.
DOWN:
1 Always. 2 Polka. 3 Robe. 4 Trainee. 6 Adder. 7 Integrity. 8 Strength. 11 Span. 14 Vane. 15 Title deed. 16 UFO. 17 Otto. 18 Smash hit. 20 Cord. 21 Unnerve. 22 Verger. 24 Meant. 26 Sting. 27 Open.
ACROSS
1 Point out man breaking up
summit (8-3) 9 Dust blower is returning with
small volume in hopper (7) 10 Anglicans welcome exotic
dance rhythm (7) 11 Ladies perhaps make brief
appearance (3) 12 Single-digit growth ruins one
in the end (7) 13 Uneasiness when going round island guarded by man (7) 14 Decline long story that’s
incomplete (3) 15 Put forward individual to fill
job (5) 17 Feeling stiff with age? Try
running round America (5) 18 Part of brush or all of it,
entangled (5) 20 Bond star’s back, clutching
former partner (5) 22 Bill restricts one charity (3) 24 Plant I observe over in half of
France (7) 25 Old copper catches superb
small marine creature (7) 26 What cows unevenly digest
at first (3) 27 Things vanish into this upper
layer of atmosphere (4,3) 28 Send crazy European into
wild garden (7) 29 Animal that’s reportedly terrible to put up with (7,4)
DOWN
1 Danger involved in promoting
growing business (6,9) 2 Release new short form accepted by Unionist party leaders (7) 3 Walk in leisurely fashion, heading off to fish (5) 4 Personal duty is unsettling to
Mexican (6,3) 5 Groom told Elizabeth about
daughter’s small child (7) 6 Working with two pens, Charlie’s right — this is no use to him (6,9) 7 The way things are, a sibling
controls city centre (2,2,2) 8 Army engineers on troublefree daily treatment (6) 16 Czar’s aunt designed city in
Tenerife (5,4) 18 Fleet regularly shelters in
utter security (6) 19 Curry accompaniment mother immersed in British wine (7) 21 Release group without
charge (3,4) 23 Like hopes of woman passed
over by father? (6) 25 Occasionally lords delay in
an unconventional way (5)