The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
1 County point on brown terrain (14)
9 Senior person's tree (5) 10 Section of musical that goes to your head? (9)
11 Choose gold constituent (7) 12 Former Prime Minister eats
her stew (7)
13 Go back through Pasadena as soon as possible
(inits) (4)
14 Puts on the agenda, clues
she'd rewritten (9)
18 Sees Latin translated as
most important (9)
20 Sound fish for spirit (4)
22 Pair with one herb around
book-mark (7)
25 Because of ingrowing
toenail (5,2)
26 Smooth ale concoction is
disgusting (9)
27 Surface curve hasn't cold
colour (5)
28 Comic duo are in tree and able to endure the cold (6,3,5)
DOWN
1 North-east journalists required (6)
2 Compensates, and changes gear (9)
3 Type of car roof difficult to beat? (7)
4 I am harsh, I upset spiritual leader (9)
5 Cited new decree (5)
6 Get the message and derail broadcast about power (3-4) 7 Relation, English, in French resort (5)
8 Reason to ease cub out (7) 15 Large room, one we alter for festival (9)
16 Grub alone transforms drinking place (6,3)
17 I called out for French mark (7)
19 Not one or the other in there, perhaps (7)
20 Leaves chaps in torment (7) 21 Regularly find ancient city in sacred surroundings (6) 23 Redesigned La Paz square (5) 24 Square little loaf for goblin (5)
ACROSS
1 Christenings (8)
5 Do nothing (4)
9 Vents in caves (9)
10 Piece of milk-soaked bread (3) 11 Moderately heated (4)
13 Burger King product (7)
16 Yemen's continent (4)
18 Element contained in seawater (6)
19 Graham ___, Brighton Rock author (6)
21 Relieve (4)
23 Extreme self-interest (7)
25 Author of the second Gospel (4) 27 Blockhead (3)
28 Transported by plane during an emergency (9)
30 Danny ___, Walter Mitty actor (4) 31 List of specific terms and their meanings (8)
DOWN
1 Million Dollar ___, Clint Eastwood film (4)
2 Paid sportsperson (3) 3 Barbarous (7)
4 Country bordering Zambia (6) 6 Go out of view (9)
7 Person selling goods abroad (8)
8 Petrol company (4)
12 With difficulty (9)
14 Crones (4)
15 Dirt line on a bath (8)
17 Observes, spots (4)
20 Stays put (7)
22 Having no ethics (6)
24 ___ the Terrible, Russian tsar (4) 26 Invasion of June 6, 1944 (1-3) 29 Afternoon refreshment (3)