CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Quick to remain in office (6) 7 One possibly tending to be poor (8) 8 No fish can make a foul noise! (4) 10 Gosh, there’s an outcry for Ike! (6) 11 Prick a pie with some force (6) 14 One cast as a drifter? (3) 16 Mother of a Latin scholar (5) 17 Interviewed a skinhead, even! (4) 19 Of its kind, a crushingly big thing (5) 21 On a rickety pier, a number are in danger (5) 22 The head, informally (5) 23 In Lancashire it’s called brass (4) 26 Being so tends to dispel fears (5) 28 Some craft can drift a long way! (3) 29 Spell “carnet” wrong (6) 30 Can she ruin a US federal agency? (6) 31 The state a hut may be in (4) 32 Having a shy at them may be fair game (8) 33 Having twin boys, he paid attention (6)

DOWN

1 Bitty compositions? (6) 2 Said to be satisfactorily enclosed in new pens (6) 3 Not exactly wily, but unctuous (4) 4 Very little mail is misdirected to the ministry (7) 5 Courage needed when you learn trouble’s starting (5) 6 Keep a car on the road? (5) 8 Better than prison? Jolly good! (4) 9 Too silly to get out of the rain? (3) 12 Having one for music, you get the notes right (3) 13 Possibly scent cash (5) 15 Light to carry (5) 18 His symphonies, for instance, are in large form (5) 19 They aren’t all of the same nature (3) 20 A salient feature of perjury (3) 21 Like pigs with no price, possibly (7) 22 Mountain man? (3) 23 Breaking this bottle could be a facer! (6) 24 Chief of the hierarchy (4) 25 Being angry, he’d go out to have a meal (6) 26 Supply a firearm part (5) 27 Ornamental as you can imagine (5) 28 Never-ending destiny to be overweight (3) 30 Soft food and hard exercise for a dog (4)