CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1

Source of pains in Europe (5)

One aspect of audience communication (5) Pretend to be discerning (4,3)

Fathead taking a hand? (5) A vegetable vessel (5) Add that a little drink is more expensive (3,2) Hero worshipper (7)

A layer of fresh enamel (3) Lied shiftily about being slack? (4)

Having walked, do rest where possible (6) Food for father’s volunteers (5)

20 Ranged around a pleasant

place (6)

22 Alpine tree? (4) 24 Frequently at zero feet (3) 25 Reactor designer? (7)

26 In haste, Ben goes by rail! (5) 27 Steve’s cup? (5)

28 One man’s motto (5) 29 Caught a silly fellow in a dole fiddle (7) Servicemen may find it boring (5)

They’re heard making turns as they fly (5) 6 9

10 11 12

13 15 17

18 19 30 31

DOWN

2 3 4 5 6

Waited to get used to the loudspeaker system (6) Not liable to find much mud in a broken-down mine (6) Refusal to make any change (3)

Can he sing only one sound note? (5)

Georgian girl with a twin in Maine (7) 7 8

12

13 14

15 16 18 19 21 22 23

Keep spinning tops (4) In terrible dread, the Tory leader moved fast (6)

Is he next to wander around the American capital? (5) Talk of fish and duck (5) Ready to switch to some alternative (5)

Get away with a sprained ankle? (3,2)

Lady Guinevere’s indignant refusal (5)

Childish version of a pork pie? (5) Examination of a country girl (7)

A fair imitation of a romance? (6)

What a padre may organise for the church? (6)

The idea that there’s not 25 26 28 one available (6) Credit the fool with being stupid (5)

Can climbing it make you hot, possibly feverish? (4) Joined the police (3)