CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 It’s worth getting excited when you have a fling (5) 6 Avoids large containers (5) 9 Information about whats at the bottom of things (3-4) 10 You can get water at the Boar’s Head, one thinks (5) 11 I cleverly coin a term for classical architecture (5) 12 New leader shut out by accident (5) 13 New Orleans? (7) 15 It’s served in the late afternoon (3) 17 Extra cross (4) 18 Vegetable vessels (6) 19 Hit on the head for a piece of silver (5) 20 On a car, bad rust that’s possibly growing (6) 22 Walk at speed (4) 24 She anticipates (3) 25 Perhaps acutely scraggy? (7) 26 A beater’s courage? (5) 27 Bury, a familiar football team (5) 28 Goodness, what a shame about the echo! (5) 29 Thinks highly of one who’s always in the reserves? (7) 30 Can it help keep one’s chest a bit warm in bed? (5) 31 By no means the first to be badly hit on the road (5)

DOWN

2 Are such remedies for boys? (6) 3 A duck lives on fruit (6) 4 Succeeded in copying one (3) 5 Woman getting the house in a state (5) 6 The Dons are upset about a win for this team (7) 7 A hitch, perhaps, in banknote production (4) 8 Paid out again in duplicate (6) 12 Drink with some sign of contempt? (5) 13 Spare room? Not exactly (5) 14 With endless luck, again gets the money (5) 15 Industrial experiment? (5) 16 In a monastery garden? (5) 18 Where, in Wales, to start going broke! (5) 19 Customer looking angry with the insurance? (7) 21 Where to hold a meeting in the street (6) 22 Penalise for a shipwreck around mid-June (6) 23 Run around in a trance (6) 25 Sign meaning “arise anew”? (5) 26 German sherry centre (4) 28 A favourite of the type to come first (3)