CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Uncle, my boy, is a strong

man (6)

7 It’s even handed to a mathematician (8)

8 Takes a little drink (4)

10 The cost of cigarettes? (6) 11 Reach the new status of a

titan (6)

14 For the poet, it’s not all over

(3)

16 Where the French shelter

their sick? (5)

17 Rodents’ star turn (4) 19 Figure out a good symbol (5) 21 So the French are not heels

(5)

22 Crazy about halftone reproduction? (5)

23 Be carried back in the same

direction (4)

26 City of strange moods (5) 28 She’s in the right! (3)

29 Cut back a tree that’s

fruited? (6)

30 A six-footer’s out to hold Sid

close by (6)

31 The burden on the States

(4)

32 Lately needing to depend on

having little money (8) 33 Ridicule can get one in tears,

possibly (6)

DOWN

1 Something to eat before

breakfast (6)

2 Pointed weapon held by

Hitler’s bodyguard, etc. (6) 3 Mistakenly sent home (4) 4 Struggles to digest

tablets (7) 5 The latest thing in ties (5) 6 Annie’s wrong to be so

silly (5)

8 Person in Anne Hathaway’s

cottage (4)

9 By making a hamper vegetarian! (3)

12 Smaller than a tiny metal

box (3)

13 Long ago it was written up in

the dailies (5)

15 River diverted a lot of the

capital of Venezuela (5) 18 Performer with nothing to

cart around, perhaps (5) 19 Drink, little one (3)

20 Don’s left the ass a note! (3) 21 Nobody will deny this vague

individual (7)

22 Will he pass the Nag’s Head?

(3)

23 The final effect is an exceptional lustre (6)

24 She’s almost Hibernian (4) 25 Come out as a bit of a

schemer, generally (6)

26 It’s fun, cobber (5)

27 Though not much good, he

has been capped (5)

28 The young are in her

clutches (3)

30 Bossy, heartless, wild

fellows (4)