CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 A dismissive word to Sam, not being in credit ( 5) 6 It’s pickle, so don’t waste it ( 5) 9 Rolling along the alley ( 7) 10 Amount of metal moulded into and around a key ( 5) 11 Being Welsh, she guided Noel around the capital ( 5) 12 Where to get a sound crew ( 5) 13 Happen to veer to the off ( 4,3) 15 A partnership’s seedy ends? ( 3) 17 Dry in the fresh air a lot ( 4) 18 Be generous so as to have maybe atoned ( 6) 19 Rear to be tough ( 5) 20 At heart, the plain facts can possibly hurt ( 6) 22 Face a girl and a boy ( 4) 24 The promising start is positive ( 3) 25 A poet’s movements? ( 7) 26 One sailing from Oslo, perhaps, to Peterhead? ( 5) 27 Just a bad molar ( 5) 28 The boy with the can ( 5) 29 Encouragement to be progressive ( 2,5) 30 A hard- hearted line has its point ( 5) 31 Informal forename for a footballer ( 5)
DOWN
2 Agree to deceive a dirty dog! ( 6) 3 Proliferate in one great leap? ( 6) 4 Tom’s up for the test ( 3) 5 Dally, yet move fast! ( 5) 6 In high probability, it gets snowed on ( 7) 7 Look with love at a shapely leg? ( 4) 8 Choose to raise fees for the thing in question ( 3,3) 12 Factions that see lust as needing correction? ( 5) 13 Stay around for a little time, it’s nice ( 5) 14 Arrange to make an outfit more expensive ( 3,2) 15 In the garden, much clever topiary ( 5) 16 Prepares potatoes, a bit of pie and some fish ( 5) 18 Look exhausted and fall out of the ring ( 5) 19 Everything in the exhibition is trivial ( 7) 21 Artist who, again, had no hair- piece ( 6) 22 I’d vied with a share system ( 6) 23 Are there degrees of fishiness in his sport ( 6) 25 Coffee, or some more tea that’s not right ( 5) 26 An import we get in from
Saigon? ( 4) 28 A mousy flier ( 3)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 3. D- oubt 8. Col.- ic 10. Right 11. Gas 12. O- rgan 13. Now- here 15. C- ease 18. Nab 19. Pe- St.- er 21. Serio- us 22. New- t
23. E- a- se 24. Sea- sons 26. Grade- d 29. Tar 31. Sat- an 32. Geraint 34. Visor 35. Gnu 36. Folio 37. Henry 38. Drift. DOWN: 1. Go- go- L 2. Fishnet 4. Ogre 5. Braces 6. Tines 7. Chase 9. Law 12. Orbited 14. Ear 16. A- tlas 17. Erred 19. Punster 20. S- nag- S 21. Sweat 23. Enraged 24. Sen- I- or 25. Oar 27. Ra- Y- on 28. D- av- id 30. In- Ure 32. Golf 33. In- n.