CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Old broadcast beats depression (8) 5 Swindle good high-class politician touring Arizona (6) 9 Old Scotsman goes back some way to find aromatic plant (8) 10 Engineers run over dealer (6) 12 Square popular in North-East (4) 13 Doctor Marlowe’s strange day in fantasy land (10) 15 Spy solo caver’s unusual way to obtain sodium carbonate (6,7) 19 Haphazard windy attraction? (6-7) 23 Ground of hotel had what’s said to be good for you (6,4) 25 Rounds of gammon with reduced margins (4) 28 Vigorously tackle beer gut and facial hair (6) 29 Top learner in small boat (8) 30 The Spanish calm team (6) 31 Illicit traveller in island port bringing in whisky for sailors (8)

DOWN

1 Good kids enjoy this on 19, except son (6) 2 Little monkey snaffles fruit (5) 3 Artist and parliamentarian supply sleeping policeman (4) 4 Turn up hit song ‘Fever’ (7) 6 Dart right into a fight (5) 7 Pants etc below NE river (9) 8 One’s entering march, 13 maybe (8) 11 Beef or fish? (4) 14 Rising feel-good factor and exhilaration (4) 15 Conscious of one’s own feelings, erase flaw at work (4-5) 16 Steer tug, avoiding middle of liner (3) 17 A hot liquid that’s taken in court (4) 18 Ex-Foreign Secretary behind article in Dutch city (3,5) 20 Out of danger, having foundered initially in rough sea (4) 21 One unhealthily 15 Down, say, is excessive outside (7) 22 Reluctant to talk about sea satire perhaps (6) 24 Woman’s put in note at that point (5) 26 Parrot’s beginning to make a crow’s sound (5) 27 Recognise nerd who’s turned up (4)

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