The Herald crosswords

ACROSS

9 Pain caused by hatchet broken about middle of foot (9)

10 Containing nothing yet MP is worried (5)

11 Red vehicle belongs to me (7) 12 Regard sceptre that’s damaged (7)

13 Avoids the issue by using tradesman’s entrance? (9) 16 Different parent heading off (5) 17 Wild hyena trainer’s part of the Med (10,3)

20 Poet dines next to king (5) 21 Twelve dozen in dire need were rapt (9)

24 Allows cheek to escape (3,4) 25 Finished with girl in Irish county (7)

27 Wash car in secure sector (5) 28 Apply paint beneath jacket (9)

DOWN

1 Heaps of tools initially found in bags (6)

2 Sound carried to pig (4)

3 Charles going around in fetters (6)

4 Skin problem one’s covering the start of neatly (4)

5 Keeping down ere spring’s out (10)

6 Soap, note, used on cutlery item (8)

7 Amazed there is no address (10)

8 Hear man’s address to unknown puzzle (7)

14 Place arm in dirty drink (3,7) 15 Still sell up again if seen about old exam (6-4)

18 Determined lords Eve confused (8)

19 Heavens! Silly escapade for bird (7)

22 Proprietors’ changes worsen (6)

23 Scrub up some concrete ledge (6)

25 Bird to carry out twice (4)

26 Deity accepts nothing is fine (4)

ACROSS

1 Stuck in the same sort of roles (8)

5 Land measure (4)

9 Relating to the polls (9) 10 Negating word (3)

11 Barred enclosure (4) 13 Non-professional (7) 16 Christmas season (4) 18 Purloin (6)

19 Give help (6)

21 Variety of government bond (4)

23 Music for a Mass (7)

25 Rod for wheels (4)

27 Passing through (3)

28 Cook’s hand protector (4,5) 30 Look lustfully (4) 31 Last-minute pardon for an offender (8)

DOWN

1 Source of logs (4)

2 Closed pastry-case (3) 3 Small reflector on a road’s surface (4-3)

4 TV programme with regular instalments (6)

6 Agreeable (9)

7 Whole (8)

8 Declaration of guilt or innocence (4) 12 Even (3,6)

14 Food time (4)

15 Favourable opinion (8)

17 Impulse (4)

20 Walk with jerky unsteadiness (7) 22 Hamper (6)

24 Golf club (4)

26 Hand over (4)

29 Be indebted to (3)