CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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DOWN

1 Having pages missing, doesn’t include it (6,3)

It’s in the jeweller’s window your mates are about to break (8)

Look on page two (4) Stops to get ice (6)

Have little skill in drink making (7)

Completely free from, instantly (5,4) Intimating that one’s influencing unfairly (7,2) Mean to have a drink at last (7)

Waste what you’ve earned (6)

Come to the jail (4) Leave, terribly angry about having been exposed (8) The old aircraft turning to land - or take off (8)

Out to get the son in, will get rid of (4)

Is put off by the figure, which is silly (6)

Actresses are put upon by her (7)

The reptile file (9)

The lout, when he’d been caught entering, became violent (6,3) Inveighing against - that’s right; complaining of (7) Think the notice outside was funny (6)

Backtrack and you’ll find he’s misled you (4)

Though determined, be beaten back in a true rout (8) Don’t leave much time to do the shredding? (3,2,4)

A bit upset by thunder?

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

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8 11 16 19 20 Nonsense! (8)

Being forced to, when in possession of (6) Understood one’s successor had done so (8)

As usual, young and thickset (6)

Holding a green ticket for the trips (8)

This nipper is a loner (6,4) Did he rest on the bed after tea? (7)

In the role of Lear, perhaps, which is demanding (6) Bird with a sharp point to its tail (7)

Fastened outside again, in rows (6)

Is loaded with fishing equipment (5)

Served up, too (3) ACROSS: 1. Da-V-is 6. Suite 9. Serio-us 10. Arrow 11. Perms 12. C-hips 13. Rival-Ry. 15. Mud 17. Oder 18. Cr-ease D-aunts 22. Def-t 24. Ops. 25. Sol-idly 26. C-rank 27. Devil 28. B-err-y 29. Ted-IOUs 30. Fleet 31. Stilt

2. Afraid 3. I-sobar 4. Sew 5. Fi-shy 6. Sup-port 7. US-es 8. Temp-us 12. Cra-MS 13. Ron-do 14. Ven-us

18. Crook 19. Starlet 21. A-pp-Eal 22. Di-vest 23. Flora-l 25. SN-ail 26. Cite (site) 28. B-US DE-It-y 19. Smart 20. 15. Mated 16.