Yesterday’s solution

ACROSS:

1 Rushed. 4 Chill. 7 Eventually. 8 None. 9 Stall. 11 Droplet. 13 Savings. 15 Fasts. 17 Tape. 18 Mechanical. 20 Rigid. 21 Haggis.

1 Ruined. 2 Hive. 3 Dangles. 4 Clubs. 5 Ill. 6 Loyal. 7 Enjoys. 10 Annual. 12 Tarnish. 14 Sweeps. 15 Femur. 16 Stand. 17 Tang. 19 Cog.

DOWN:

Trying to plant rambling rose

during season (8) Martha’s sleeping without

Harry (6)

9 Porter’s occasionally bound to

get strain (8)

10 Who put Moriarty primarily

in tight corners? (6)

12 Finished deliveries at the

Oval (4)

13 What fans do when a goal’s

scored in good spirit? (10)

15 Polite people downstairs who

occupy Whitehall? (5,8)

19 Stall for box holding a small

container (13)

23 CBS tries to broadcast work

in arrivals area (10)

25 Landscape feature consisting

of two hectares (2-2)

28 Go by the Spanish part of

church (6)

29 Person in suit reading giant

novel (8)

30 One’s exasperated at the end

of this tie (6)

31 Uneasy wife abandons

struggles with son (8)

DOWN

1 Excellent clue to start of puzzle

(6)

2 Court official always rises to

welcome European (5)

3 Frame made from southern

tree (4)

4 Organise wetland beside a

lake (7)

6 A dessert served up cool (5)

7 Home Counties doctor with his knife makes appearance (9)

8 Writer is in France holding

talks about Independent (8)

11 Fun event tempting everyone

at first? (4)

14 State’s mean, dropping age

(4)

15 Annoyed worker devours one

patisserie (9)

16 Somewhere to film group (3)

17 Flesh is revealed but not all

of it (4)

18 Rival, old very quiet one, not

without heart (8)

20 Father and teacher, head of

Eton (4)

21 Tend 150 in one square (7)

22 Growth in California and Connecticut states (6)

24 Guarantee to ignore Republican result (5)

26 American donated one of his

plants (5)

27 Officer keeps providing

encouragement (4)