CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Get over being displeased? (5)
6 Vacant place for the starting price of the winner? (5) 9 Standard rent, perhaps, as for one’s spouse? (7) 10 Be heard to run an old-time dance (5)
11 The spread of western stock-farming (5) 12 State ownership! (5) 13 Possibly enlarge all round (7) 15 Conducted out of Wimbledon (3)
17 Do evening work that could be heartily boring! (4) 18 Not quite a cut price cleric (6)
19 Agitates for dissolution, perhaps (5)
20 On paper, a good time on the Fourth of July (6) 22 Flavouring that makes many sick? (4)
24 In serious adversity, not happy (3) 25 Ministerial furniture? (7) 26 Its flow of water is right in volume (5)
27 Having been shot, no longer employed (5) 28 Figuratively speaking, not Arabic (5)
29 The way people love me in a show? (7)
30 In a hole, Charlie needs a million (5)
31 During the noon break, I get something to eat (5)
DOWN
2 You again dare to be different (6)
3 Said to be good-hearted (6) 4 A mug of vegetable juice (3) 5 A ring round a lagoon (5) 6 When Rosie’s upset over us, it’s no laughing matter (7) 7 Vehicle suitable for a beginner (4)
8 Long to enter court with distinction (6) 12 Pettishly spiteful? (5) 13 Securities one may think edgily about? (5)
14 Just went ahead and nuzzled? (5)
15 Form of communication used in Roman times (5) 16 Gave the school a hand (5) 18 What we hear when the cake mixture is about right (5) 19 Status of a leading player having a lot to do (7)
21 It’s unwise to embrace a girl, albeit to give utmost pleasure (6) 22 Disclaim any connection with the many possibly broadcast (6)
23 Don’t be abrupt — play it smooth! (6) 25 Insurance for which the initial cost is too much? (5) 26 Dick Turpin’s black associate (4)
28 Australian bounder, a bit of a crook (3)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 4. Become 7. Us-eful-ly 8. Ru-ff-le 10. Chemo 13. B-one 14. Halo 15. RA-nd 16. Err 17. Roof 19. Ears 21. Main force 23. Tall
24. Last 26. No.-T 27. Cher 29. Oral 32. Dais 33. Brun-O 34. Squint 35. Chap-lain 36. Health.
DOWN: 1. Hunch 2. Level (rev.) 3. Ludo 4. B-y-ron 5. Cafe 6. Molars 9. Unders 11. Ham 12. Mora-l 13. Baffles 15. Ron 16. Ere 18. Oil-can 20. Actor 21. Mat 22. Oar 23. To-r-que 25. Can(can) 28. Hitch 30. Rural 31. Lorna 32. D-ill 33. BA-PS.