Cryptic Crossword

SOLUTION ACROSS:

6 Change one’s mind. 9 Castle. 10 Fumigate. 11 Tennyson. 13 Afford. 15 Optics. 17 Petrol. 19 Bender. 20 Las Vegas. 22 Shiftily. 24 Hearts. 26 French dressing.

DOWN:

1 Scrape together. 2 Mast. 3 Egrets. 4 Team game. 5 Smug. 7 Offend. 8 Natural wastage. 12 Noted. 14 Forte. 16 Corniche. 18 Player. 21 Schism. 23 Fund. 25 Arid.

ACROSS

1 Onlooker showing awful brass, yep (6-2)

5 Pair around eastern U.S. college get allowance (6)

9 Be cleverer than some oddly put in publicised painting, maybe (8)

10 Familiar piece of open land for public use (6)

12 Smooth club (4)

13 A cab in Yemen, losing money, in trouble and not currently operating? (2,8)

15 Local plane fit to fly? It gets to make sense (4,4,5)

19 Group entering vessel parting by road funnily (8,5)

23 One admiring a number one? (10)

25 A glass container partly open (4)

28 Medical preparation spilt in a car (6)

29 Exploitative types against varied rules covering trade union (8)

30 Supposition from Conservative about extremists in home (6)

31 Left grey hat that’s crumpled, showing torpor (8)

DOWN

1 Hard old boy in film having an irrational fear (6)

2 Argument to begin working (32)

3 Writer in turn with surprised expression gets TV award (4) 4 U.S. friend welcoming series on island in African country (7) 6 Rambling by one dark wood (5) 7 Brief sign shown in Montana on a railway (9)

8 Element with Kelvin before Rex, one who enjoys experimenting (8)

11 Support a British establishment that’s empty (4)

14 Police officer left in detachable unit of a vehicle (4)

15 Good artist in EU country showing scent (9)

16 Pester old Arab, say (3)

17 Meat kept in shop or kitchen (4)

18 Plentiful tuna and liquid around front of bistro (8) 20 Food from new very large hotel (4)

21 View parking on winding routes (7)

22 Greek is lamentably gutted causing horror (6)

24 Suffer in cold old city (5) 26 Member of a panel in Hebridean island, we’re told (5) 27 Having dropped daughter, get rid of irritating sensation (4)