The Herald crosswords
ACROSS
4 Express disapproval at
unfinished literary work (3)
8 Stockier one is an illegal
occupier (8)
9 Against most of poetry by
American (6)
10 Points out engine part (6)
11 A live lot unstable,
dangerously unstable (8)
12 Better that non-drinker leaves
this (4)
13 An article that’s vague (10)
15 Bird a very long time in
southern seaside town (7)
17 Satisfied with what is inside (7) 21 Built up reserve supplies in
terribly slick depot (10)
23 Get rid of some biased
umpires (4)
25 Reporters exert force on
fellows (8)
27 Not likely to catch disease from
menu I’m preparing (6)
28 Generosity of boy holding
another nut (6)
29 There, there, a large part is
heavenly (8)
30 Bird doesn’t start to shriek (3)
DOWN
1 Horsey sweetheart repeatedly
holds child of five (6)
2 Unyielding actors and actresses
club together (4-4)
3 Getting to one’s feet but failing to
keep an appointment (10)
4 Cry of approval about commercial show of courage (7)
5 Ring Virginia left at the cricket ground (4) 6 Mediterranean islander coming out of trance (6) 7 Report that the gun is loaded? (8) 12 Public transport virtually kaput (3) 14 Powerful lamp used by
Noah? (10) 16 Change to a lower station (8)
18 Dark time, perhaps, for coastal waterline (8)
19 Best quality surface (3)
20 Soft soap for cloth (7)
22 No end of cash in round gambling-room (6)
24 Chaps talk endlessly – it’s mad! (6)
26 Nothing follows a month in this
Irish county (4)
ACROSS
1 Marriage offer (8) 5 Adjudge (4) 9 Aggravated (9) 10 Hill, rocky peak (3) 11 Film about heroic events (4) 13 Crucial element (7) 16 Measure of land (4) 18 Equipment (6)
19 Of Swiss mountains, for
instance (6)
21 Show audacity (4)
23 Betting person (7)
25 Aid, often illegally (4) 27 Enquire (3) 28 Participant in a leaping winter sport (3,6) 30 Grassy surface (4) 31 Made a hash of (6,2)
DOWN
1 Overly moral person (4) 2 Paddle (3)
3 Pertaining to vision (7)
4 Branched horn on a
deer (6)
6 Widespread (9)
7 Unlawful killer (8)
8 ___ and ends, scraps (4) 12 Synthetic heart-regulator (9)
14 Scorch, brand (4)
15 Showing no activity (8)
17 Yield (to another) (4)
20 Twenty Thousand ___ under the Sea,
film (7)
22 Reach your destination (6)
24 Fail to win (4)
26 Slope downwards (4)
29 Blotter (3)