CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fail to notice distressed lover visiting old well (8) 5 Acquire round container holding former reserves (6) 9 Women’s quarters in Algiers rebuilt by Ottoman leader (8) 10 Completely consumes American energy drink (4,2) 12 Worry about paper stores (4) 13 Hand-written document in football team’s vault, it’s said (10) 15 They cut fruits popular monarch’s husband brought in (7,6) 19 Stop buckteeth rotting? Bite the dust! (4,3,6) 23 Wimpy doctor twice sent in no wages separately (5-5) 25 Bunch of revolting yobs arrested, having broken this? (4) 28 Mustang, maybe, one of five arriving together in heart of Greece (6) 29 Wild beast traps people in cellar (8) 30 Quit busy side street (6) 31 Supporter’s friend straddling nervous steed (8)

DOWN

1 Become inflexible and cross if you’re consuming it (6) 2 Spooky European lake (5) 3 Lift some regulations for event in Winter Olympics (4) 4 Old chum in Paris imports gear for folding paper (7) 6 Simple writer takes in Anglo-Saxon (5) 7 One who attacks a special holy person touring U.S. city (9) 8 Favouring one’s own cultivated pimentos (8) 11 Top half of a small house in Cork (4) 14 Military group, French one with PCs etc (4) 15 They lift spirits in Middle East carried by trucks (4-2-3) 16 End of pen not including first of boars (3) 17 Fish quiver after head gets chopped off (4) 18 Aggressive youth Rick asked about stylish hotel (8) 20 Cut round leader in the morning paper (4) 21 University doctor approaching spleen causes offence (7) 22 Corporal’s lesson involving first of tanks (6) 24 Tugs bring in nothing for a long time (5) 26 Got a whiff of what metal extractors do (5) 27 Tenor cuts charge for garden party (4)

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