CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dominate old military unit (8) 5 Duck out of going to fell oriental tree (6) 9 Rotten tree with bone left inside that’s hideous (8) 10 Quarters affected? Put up tents (6) 12 Hand-me-down ulster occasionally put on daughter (4) 13 Perhaps cheapest accommodation upset child stars (5,5) 15 Music group, band with two pints, interrupting ‘Let it be’ (6,7) 19 Found home to accommodate top royal, one in row (8,5) 23 Enhanced scale and icons showing revived style (10) 25 Staunch support

for plant (4) 28 Absurd story about European aphrodisiac? (6) 29 Rowdy hotel, one circled by meandering lagoon (8) 30 Affair limits Yankee

pilot’s job (6) 31 A cry for help brings in top firefighter, now banned (8)

DOWN

1 Maybe orange

refreshes rustic (6) 2 Join setter to bring in

a little work (5) 3 Solo, uplifting melody at

conclusion of opera (4) 4 Swimmer left Greek character in Russian river (7) 6 Chief turns up in charge

of architect’s order (5) 7 Promise to briefly protect a new part of course (9) 8 Facing work on

river location (8) 11 Irish question implicates

a different country (4) 14 Relative of 4 seen in two

of the Balearics (4) 15 Joking apart, India invested in euros converted with cunning (9) 16 One’s given outstanding devotion first and foremost (3) 17 Border on a

reservation (4) 18 Workers host northern bash for rugby player (5-3) 20 Trouble-free Spain, say,

after revolution (4) 21 Awful ambassador in America grasps nothing (7) 22 Compensation

changes (6) 24 Left individual, one in Berlin, reward for late night? (3-2) 26 Sozzled this evening

on leaving (5) 27 Now and then Bill used

award at Cambridge (4)

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