CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Put out to be used at a party

(6)

7 Novel cover showing nothing but a strange man in dire risk (4,4)

8 Stiffeners to spare? (4) 10 Play misguidedly for money,

I see (6)

11 Put in a complaint about a

careless porter (6)

14 Girl in a million? (3)

16 There are no knotty problems if you know them (5) 17 The way to break a rod (4) 19 Make further adjustment

concerning the radio (5) 21 New diet with a soft ingredient, not very hot (5)

22 Ran pupils’ gymnastics in

the old style (5)

23 Stop sorting the mail (4) 26 Better arrangement of wires

(5)

28 Drinking bout - in a car? (3) 29 The emphasis on current

cash (6)

30 Might one seem dog-tired,

following the colonel? (6) 31 Fit or suitable to go without

clothes (4) 32 Commonwealth figure in the

Promised Land! (8)

33 Fiddle with it idly, yet neatly

(6)

DOWN

1 Fathead taking pudding with

hesitation (6)

2 Left port, unhappy about a

wicked lie (6)

3 The record’s discernibly

reduced (4)

4 Infuriated by the grenade

explosion (7) 5 Sarah got work in Shropshire, once (5)

6 Equipment in a ship, as

presented on stage, etc. (5) 8 She’s always starting

romances (4)

9 Great as bingo? No no! (3) 12 Top up a vessel (3) 13 Harvests pears, possibly (5) 15 Drive off and swim round the

pierhead (5)

18 As used by a publican with

vision? (5)

19 Intrepid traveller? (3)

20 He helps in dishing up (3) 21 Bad weather means, to the

navy, much fuss (7)

22 It’s not on the draughty side

(3)

23 Looking a bit sick, paid out

fifty quid (6) 24 Look round at no ordinary

leg (4)

25 Went in to contribute to the

score (6)

26 You can see its hands and

face (5)

27 There’s more than one in a

round (5)

28 Engagement causing Jo Brand to lose money abroad? (3)

30 Hypocrisy? There’s no such

word! (4)