CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Regarding a guardian utterly upset when carrying article (8)
5 Covering fish and meat
on a regular basis (6)
9 Engineer wading in front of two lakes in Highland town (8)
10 Selected thing for watering garden in sides of cabin (6)
12 Loose bits of thread found in Dublin theatre (4)
13 Bankers etc. turned
out in fine cars (10)
15 Weariless, unseal
exhibit for analysis (13)
19 Tenth coronary requiring review? Quite the reverse! (2,3,8)
23 Reddish-brown row of houses restricted by extraordinary area (10) 25 Bone in a limb is somewhat painful, naturally (4)
28 Be dishonest and mean and keep out of sight (3,3)
29 Occupying a block, say, with journalist that’s puffed up? (8)
30 Code of secrecy
broken at Rome (6)
31 Like a target for golfers,
we hear, in general (2,1,5)
DOWN
1 Very small toy’s top, awkward
to use with no end of stuff (6)
2 Group of nine from the south
getting projected part? (5)
3 Regulation over new
patch of grass (4)
4 English explorer in U.S. city (7) 6 A medic goes round hospital
for this purpose (2,3)
7 One typifying an activity
by poorest ground (6,3)
8 Element captures large animal
with time on reflection (8)
11 Recipe with a good
refined meat sauce (4)
14 Perennial shrub found in Greek
city (not the outskirts) (4)
15 Direct need possibly after
Democrat quits to mediate (9) 16 A pair of notes for woman (3) 17 Actor John’s process at
the end of winter? (4)
18 Singer Elvis taking instrument
around east of Germany (8)
20 Award winner embracing
ordinary source of music (4)
21 Complaint from Greek character about poor taste? The opposite! (7)
22 Lad we’d diverted gets
to waste time (6)
24 Take up work in commercial
environment ultimately (5)
26 Group starts to try out
indoor game (5)
27 Switching direction, develop
feeling of warmth (4)