CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 You never see one wearing a hood (5)

6 Remnants of wrecked bus on the street (5)

9 Say something wrong (7)

10 Do well, making money in the expansion of business (5)

11 A drink before my game (5)

12 Pass the ball? (5)

13 Busy getting united! (7)

15 Shoemaking tool? (3) 17 Stravinsky’s operatic prince? (4)

18 Engagement with a playful little man (6)

19 Song of the South (5)

20 Adjoining Charlton, it’s not far from Heathrow (6)

22 Where the low soldiery can feel at home? (4)

24 It’s back for an early start to the match (3)

25 Faulty loaf? (7)

26 Female horse out of line (5)

27 Cry when shut out for nothing (5)

28 Let it change name (5)

29 Naval hero? A beast, really (3,4)

30 A piece of land in Wales (5)

31 Looks and sounds like Samuel (5)

DOWN

2 Not being busy, I’d fish (6)

3 One thus has to exclude this line (6)

4 Wood used in model making (3)

5 Like every single person (5)

6 You may get it with a smile in the Army and Navy (7) 7 Loyal, I agree (4)

8 A growing degree of bamboozlement! (6) 12 Make a start in radio at home (3,2)

13 Fat lady engaged in rowing (5)

14 Go a bit closer to a bird (5)

15 The rent-a-staff man (5) 16 Always, outside a theatre, you have to go in (5)

18 Paisley’s passage (5)

19 Gave an article between two boys (7)

21 It comprises scores in the freight yard (6)

22 Like cattle, or big-headed sheep? (6)

23 Get a better price for? (4,2)

25 Dixie, like him, is apt to become heated (5)

26 Think a fabulous female (4)

28 Like the winning dog? (3)