CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 The duchess’s game (5)
6 As worn by the astronomer? (5)
9 Dyes that do so are a failure (7)
10 It’s after frisky fun that one’s out of condition (5)
11 The highest point? (5)
12 How Stein became established? (3,2)
13 The educator had tea with an actress (7)
15 Keep her quiet! (3)
17 Marble, perhaps, in architectural use (4)
18 Unexcited on the way to a meeting (6)
19 Don’t allow bread to spoil (5)
20 No out-of-the-way incursion! (6)
22 It’s the very reverse of a bit of malevolence! (4)
24 An element of rust protection (3)
25 Seemed intimidated by female wild deer (7)
26 It’s power that gives an aircraft height (5)
27 Discuss the toss? (5)
28 Stuff that makes a bad stain (5)
29 A handy skill? (7)
30 Prepares or cooks up new diets (5)
31 Sing high in the Alps? (5)
DOWN
2 Watch that horse! (6)
3 A change of rod (6)
4 Rested for one short day (3)
5 Absolute hush, always (5)
6 Any one of certain trees, possibly including pine (7) 7 School of Suetonius (4)
8 Quite at home at the crease (3,3)
12 Used a certain machine for destroying weeds (5)
13 Going without a word that’s understood (5)
14 Not the hiker’s favourite fruit (5)
15 Officer of the crown (5)
16 Cried upon finding me married (5)
18 Something afoot at an age that’s destructive (5)
19 Defoe and Boone, say, or maybe Paul (7)
21 As a hunter, he gave some animals stick! (6)
22 Played smoothly to leg out of the middle of the bat? (6)
23 City of wet streets (6) 25 This person in authority doesn’t seem to have any sex (5)
26 It just has to be used in winemaking (4)
28 To turn up with this is pushy (3)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 3. Flush 8. Lu-c-re 10. Woven 11. Poe 12. Ja-Des 13. Opt-I-mum 15. Decks 18. Gap 19. Medusa 21. Shrines 22. Heat 23. Lift 24. Peter-Ed 26. Eraser 29. Rat 31. Rode-O 32. Tendril 34. A-p-hid 35. Oil (skin) 36. Still 37. S-W-oon 38. Sewer. DOWN: 1. Puppy 2. F-re-ight 4. Loa-m 5. Swedes 6. H-osed 7. Jerks 9. Cot 12. Ju-pit-er 14. Ma-R 16. C-up-ID 17. Salty 19. Met-ered 20. Ch.-e’er 21. Sal-ad 23. Let down 24. People 25. Ran 27. Roots 28. Seals 30. Pi-lot 32. Tire 33. Rio.