CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 In each affair, there’s badinage (5) 6 Shows no inclination to work with wild foals (5) 9 Heavenly maybe, but you’ll never see Iris on one! (7) 10 The rustic lad was in disarray! (5) 11 Once more a member will prepare for a fight (5) 12 Back rents suitably dealt with (5) 13 Distant chance of getting much off (7) 15 Stand treat, yet be right out of the party! (3) 17 What Jack said as hay was scattered around the ring? (4) 18 Seated in dignified style (6) 19 Mistakes in the field? (5) 20 Where a carpenter can get a quick meal (6) 22 Did he prophesy Sam stupidly getting out for a duck? (4) 24 The old-fashioned way to make money abroad (3) 25 Sort of disc in a lady’s handbag (7) 26 In favour of really convincing evidence (5) 27 A ‘stop’ sign often interpreted as ‘go’ (5) 28 Hungered for a portion of Cheddar (5) 29 Where, in Cornwall, to season timber (7) 30 Plant one on each side (5) 31 Pudding to have quietly, at leisure (5)

DOWN

2 How to get had up for taking a back seat (6) 3 I had to get into the fight with this character (6) 4 Myfanwy’ s lover (3) 5 One uniform with a tiny variation (5) 6 Oscar has a nice car, yet lies around in trucks (7) 7 A name for one wandering out West? (4) 8 Layout of a stronghold having a masterly occupant (6) 12 The aunt who’s targeted (5) 13 Not plain, I imagine (5) 14 Ronald accepts Diana as a sculptor! (5) 15 A pram manufacturing city (5) 16 As yet, active in fermentation (5) 18 Start spending money, just for fun (5) 19 Bridge across part of a torrent, useful to Highlanders (7) 21 Bird-man of Wimbledon, etc? (6) 22 An American in Paris? (6) 23 Groups playing a set on court, with love (6) 25 Legal expenses Scots can manage (5) 26 Pose exotically for money (4) 28 The one involved in Cleopatra’s passing? (3)