CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Port, a rich sweet wine (6) 7 Hid lager cocktail from a top

pupil (4,4)

8 Joe’s double in a movie (4) 10 Father can never be quite

the same! (6)

11 Failures as schoolteachers?

(6)

14 Soft piece of velvet, nice to

stroke (3)

16 Appears on the way to town

(5)

17 A girl to lie for, perhaps? (4) 19 Airman concerned with ignition? (5)

21 The Italian man about town

(5)

22 Stiffened or not! (5)

23 A minor point (4)

26 In art, imaginatively, it

means to draw (5)

28 It’s better to be under it

than below it! (3) 29 Managed to do a lot in a

haphazard way (6)

30 The more successful

punter? (6)

31 Food products sorted at the

postal centre (4)

32 Make it clear one needs a

period abroad (5,3) 33 Where boys are taught to

wear boaters? (6)

DOWN

1 Did he cane the boys for

many a bloomer? (6) 2 Peninsula forming a large

part of America (6)

3 It’s not that ancient history

is incomplete (4)

4 Essayist and poet who seems to have had a disease (7) 5 Clean and untangle the reins

(5)

6 In which a female, at middle

age, can see herself (5)

8 Talk about finishing up in the

open spaces (4)

9 Become a bit of a fidget (3) 12 Fixed the telly? (3)

13 Are there such days at the

end of three months? (5) 15 Will he go far? (5)

18 What a composer produces

for a long time? (5)

19 A number required for identification (3)

20 Youth left at the side of the

road? (3)

21 A one-eyed means of correction (7)

22 Offer of a job, ideally? (3) 23 A strikingly repetitive thing

to do (6)

24 The little chap’s skills (4) 25 One wheeled by a boy? (6) 26 Rubbish unwise to give to a

troop leader (5)

27 Take over, thus making a

woman cross (5)

28 Is seedy, yet has some appeal (3)

30 The couple from Talbot

House (4)