CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 17,059

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ACROSS

1 Onlooker showing

awful brass, yep (6-2)

5 Pair around eastern U.S. college get allowance (6)

9 Be cleverer than some oddly put in publicised painting, maybe (8)

10 Familiar piece of open

land for public use (6)

12 Smooth club (4)

13 A cab in Yemen, losing money, in trouble and not currently operating? (2,8)

15 Local plane fit to fly? It gets to make sense (4,4,5)

19 Group entering vessel parting by road funnily (8,5)

23 One admiring

a number one? (10)

25 A glass container

partly open (4)

28 Medical preparation

spilt in a car (6)

29 Exploitative types against varied rules covering trade union (8) 30 Supposition from Conservative about extremists in home (6) 31 Left grey hat that’s crumpled, showing torpor (8)

DOWN

1 Hard old boy in film having

an irrational fear (6)

2 Argument to begin

working (3-2)

3 Writer in turn with surprised expression gets TV award (4)

4 U.S. friend welcoming series on island in African country (7)

6 Rambling by one

dark wood (5)

7 Brief sign shown in

Montana on a railway (9)

8 Element with Kelvin before Rex, one who enjoys experimenting (8)

11 Support a British

establishment that’s empty (4) 14 Police officer left in detachable

unit of a vehicle (4)

15 Good artist in EU country

showing scent (9)

16 Pester old Arab, say (3)

17 Meat kept in shop

or kitchen (4)

18 Plentiful tuna and liquid

around front of bistro (8)

20 Food from new very

large hotel (4)

21 View parking on

winding routes (7)

22 Greek is lamentably

gutted causing horror (6)

24 Suffer in cold old city (5)

26 Member of a panel in Hebridean island, we’re told (5)

27 Having dropped daughter, get

rid of irritating sensation (4)