CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 One of the beer drinker’s overheads? ( 5) 6 Unfairly shut out for nothing, in a way ( 5) 9 Exciting or possibly exploiting ( 7) 10 Be curiously intrusive ( 5) 11 Fear of not having a right arm? ( 5) 12 Open a page mistakenly ( 5) 13 Breakdown of French cable system ( 7) 15 Deception by the FBI? ( 3) 17 An element of helpfulness in diet ( 4) 18 Appeal to a person to buzz off ( 6) 19 Spared some terrible devastation ( 5) 20 Fatheads’ afterthought for a friend ( 6) 22 She’s built rather like Mimi or Gigi ( 4) 24 Her denial helped make history ( 3) 25 One sustained by so much hot air? ( 7) 26 Where you can get torn to pieces out of the ring! ( 5) 27 Drift aloft, perhaps ( 5) 28 Points to the fully finished boot ( 5) 29 Tending to calm water ( 7) 30 Woods, in two senses, may be seen near one ( 5) 31 Stuffy fellow possibly cuddled a lot ( 5)
DOWN
2 Substitute campanologist? ( 6) 3 One who worked like a horse? ( 6)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
4 The flight of Sancho Panza ( 3) 5 Superior and wise custom? ( 5) 6 What the cur did when photographed ( 7) 7 Look round to leg, perhaps? ( 4) 8 A highwayman, but did he turn out pious? ( 6) 12 Passing under the name of “Aka”? ( 5) 13 Dump at the roadside ( 5) 14 Benefit of getting ahead in transport ( 5) 15 What’s been written of oil spillage? ( 5) 16 As a statesman, Ernest ... ( 5) 18 ... was rather like Aneurin ( 5) 19 Ancient skill in bridge building ( 7) 21 Dictator affected by the French Revolution, initially ( 6) 22 Rob of a coat ( 6) 23 The rotten fellow tripped up! ( 6) 25 Kind of knife with a curve, that is ( 5) 26 Something binding on record? ( 4) 28 White? Not he, the clever fellow! ( 3) ACROSS: 4. Rebu- ff 7. Low pr- ice 8. Pr- ague 10. Scale 13. De- ed 14. Ta- ta 15. Fold 16. I- an 17. Twin 19. Call 21. White- hall 23. TheN 24. Gap- e 26. To- O 27. Tram 29. Clam 32. Fee- L 33. Skate 34. Se- cur- e 35. Disc- over 36. Nobles. DOWN: 1. Blast 2. Sweat 3. Free 4. Re- p- el 5. Brad 6. Fru- gal 9. Red- C- ap 11. Cam 12. Lathe 13. Donegal 15. Fit 16. Il- L
18. Winter 20. Aleck 21. WHO 22. Ham 23. To- led- o 25. Eat 28. Reeds 30. Larva ( lava) 31. Merry 32. Fuel 33. Sock.