CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tough task, left running hotel in France once (4,4) 5 Get back what Yorkshire couple nicked (6) 9 Money’s wasted defending doctor’s diagnosis perhaps (8) 10 Sweet old fellows occupy part of golf course (6) 12 Steer round big city stone (4) 13 One hopes to convert vital genes out of sequence (10) 15 Old lady on her feet impresses duke, showing off (13) 19 Trained visitors lacking time to make intelligent estimate (8,5) 23 Boy about to be brought in to smarten up stalag (6,4) 25 Donkey heading off

for a spin (4) 28 Work hard in attempt to win prize (6) 29 Short piece worried nation in South Africa (8) 30 Hurry female across

a street (6) 31 Fine land borders

both sides (3,5)

DOWN

1 The French Number 1’s

revolting injury (6) 2 Baby goat (5) 3 Collect woman’s

daughter (4) 4 Cold snooty SW county

upset about motorway (7) 6 Some developers secretly

run away together (5) 7 Old fellow moves house across main road, out of bounds (3,6) 8 Rebuilt pier gets

widespread admiration (8) 11 Can university put up

section of building? (4) 14 Silver found in South America? It’s a long story (4) 15 Surplus in America around

Ohio’s tacky (9) 16 Small fool lifted piece

of turf (3) 17 Call for northern river to be

raised (4) 18 Report brief dispute between Germany, Spain and Switzerland (8) 20 Chase horse and

suchlike first (4) 21 Okra applied to one large

oral complaint (7) 22 Despot’s partial to

petty ranting (6) 24 Old revolutionary hoards

rare pigment (5) 26 Very keen director general

hosts one in Glasgow (5) 27 It’s just somewhere

with amusements (4)