Yesterday’s solution

ACROSS:

1 Shar Pei. 7 Namely. 8 Abolish. 9 Ayes. 10 Diet. 12 Bitumen. 14 Laugh at. 16 Ewer. 18 Golf. 20 Utilise. 21 Decade. 22 Thereby.

1 Scandal. 2 Above. 3 Pair. 4 Inherit. 5 Immature. 6 Sleeve. 11 Tug-of-war. 12 Banquet. 13 Nursery. 15 Atones. 17 White. 19 Mile.

DOWN:

Rebuke handsome youth casing motorway hotel (8)

5 Cut American racket (6)

9 What engravers do in bed in

the Home Counties (8)

10 Puzzle sounds oddly fine, approaching top-class (6)

12 Stick article inside church (4)

13 Carpeting having powerful

effect on old fellows (7,3)

15 Old London club the main topic of conversation (4,2,3,4)

19 Churchgoer hosts a more nervous Yankee from UK? (5-8)

23 Club in Corsica organised

gymnastic feats (10)

25 Briefly manage without yard

(4)

28 Bill carries pig on boat (6)

29 Pursue man at university receiving zero for English (6,2)

30 What some smokers do at

home with hard drink (6)

31 Overhaul army’s system,

omitting SAS for balance (8)

DOWN

1 Each expert consumes pastry

dish (6)

2 Stone worker’s ‘Mother and

Child’ (5)

3 Standard choice of adjacent

letters (4)

4 Bendy bus froze, not starting

in such conditions? (7)

6 Where to slow down superior

performance (1-4)

7 Zoo patron mistreated tiny

animal (9)

8 Sage and onion perhaps raises

stink in innards (8)

11 Kitty cherishes large bed (4)

14 Member of choir? Get her to

leave completely (4)

15 Spotted flyer flying right to

me (5,4)

16 Opponent of revolutionary

European (3)

17 Every fruit should have its top

cut off (4)

18 Ignoring book at home, Abraham upset prince’s wife (8)

20 Couple’s final position in

game on board (4)

21 Minister’s home, removing

iron from dining room (7)

22 Work hard during test to

obtain prize (6)

24 Stone pinched during robbery lost (5)

26 Bird and sheep nearly

trapped in mine (5)

27 Short rotund fruit (4)