CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Provide personal cover (6)

7 A short one? By no means! (3,2,3)

8 Watch your head! (4)

10 Be surrounded by experts in space exploration (6)

11 What walkers did when they set foot in the Kentish area (6)

14 All you need for the reception? (3)

16 As king, love to be among the common people (5)

17 Plenty of pilots (4)

19 Repaired the one at the end of the road (5)

21 He’s a card! (5)

22 As recorded, Ted’s out to get pa upset (5)

23 Eleven members (4)

26 A tree, or soft flexible cane (5)

28 Don’t allow a bachelor to have a bit of fun (3)

29 The planet’s turn for a bit of rain, and maybe sun (6)

30 Bounteous activity by bad sailors? (6)

31 Exploited, improperly sued (4)

32 Troubling to include a bit of tea in the food and drink provided (8)

33 Exercises performed when one doesn’t want to go to bed? (3-3)

DOWN

1 Drive Cleo crazy about a politician! (6)

2 Bert is upset by lots of people (6)

3 Objects one finishes with? (4) 4 Being more distant, maybe the RAF can’t quite get there (7)

5 Officer of the crown (5) 6 Worked away quietly on a song (5)

8 The majority take a bend during a car test (4)

9 Snare among pine trees (3)

12 It’s right for a fellow to be on the far left (3)

13 About the wild dingo (5)

15 The pushy person’s game? (5)

18 We get it all the time! (5)

19 To pacify, it’s offered so softly (3)

20 Persuaded to have gone first? (3)

21 It opens annually (7)

22 Instant healthy looking colour? (3)

23 Talent perhaps not easy to spot (6)

24 In the end, one gets the girl (4)

25 Gramophone needle replacement (6)

26 Comic character with only one sock (5)

27 Vehicles that start up after a car! (5)

28 Coach wrecked by Ted (3)

30 Their game is a silly one (4)