CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The craft involved in a clever solo on piano? (5) 6 Little store of hats, perhaps, at the leisure centre (5) 9 Aircraft transporting freight? (7) 10 Dean of Lilliput (5) 11 Upsetting the drink, cried (5) 12 It’s the arrangement for us, pet (5) 13 Like horseshoes, they’re attractive (7) 15 Our man in Karachi, maybe (3) 17 She makes some men idiots (4) 18 Smoky city? (6) 19 It’s better to finish off in royal style (5) 20 French alien in Brno, possibly (6) 22 Where to wear a bikini or cover nothing (4) 24 A breezy mien? (3) 25 Reactor designer? (7) 26 Points out the front end (5) 27 Food for days (5) 28 Very displeased with the figures (5) 29 Cats with possibly elfin ways (7) 30 Does it augment the fauna? (5) 31 One who tends to take things the wrong way (5)

DOWN

2 Rule a certain isle as sheriff, US style (6) 3 Do wrong to possibly the right purpose (6) 4 As in the hospital theatre? (3) 5 What a mare does when she is upset? (5) 6 Cruel as can be, certainly not sacred (7) 7 A foul journey? (4) 8 Intercede to get a garment (4,2) 12 Surname for a saint — a German one (5) 13 Saucy old diva? (5) 14 Grieve endlessly, perhaps, for the donor (5) 15 Well-worn attire? (5) 16 He’s less important with a drum (5) 18 Pumping centre (5) 19 Did he start to sink? (7) 21 Piece of writing exposed as vulgar (6) 22 Lash out for a girl in generous style (6) 23 Being amenable, figures in sharing out the dole (6) 25 Marie, it seems, produced a remedy round the medical centre (5) 26 Like a keeper of clean sheets (4) 28 Allow to go half a mile to the end of the street (3)