CLASSIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Make censorial point by acting as father? (2,4,8)
9 Factory producing tree, perhaps (5)
10 Sign car diagram (9)
11 No way strange following Rex onto platform (7)
12 Snake provides weird present (7)
13 Vehicle, note, has weathercock (4)
14 Storehouses ring areas that are dilapidated (9)
18 Put on fake make-up to taunt (4,3,2)
20 Musical for jazz enthusiasts (4)
22 Frightened about king that’s wounded (7)
25 Writes to one on retirement pay (7)
26 He sold ale, unusually, in this sort of property (9)
27 Nothing agreeable put aside (2,3)
28 Writer herding geese, Monsignor (7,7)
DOWN
1 Mischievous child approaches river that’s not clean (6)
2 Fishy moneylender? (4,5)
3 Set little bed by lake (7)
4 Bird with soft limb in giant building (9)
5 Tears out local taxes (5)
6 Elevated atmosphere, for example, in African country (7)
7 Idol in game, I fancy (5)
8 Palest success in the west (7)
15 The other side of the world mixing paint with poems (9)
16 Perception is needed in teaching (9)
17 Biblical letter – sleep with it, perhaps (7)
19 Ancestor heard to abstain (7)
20 Fit in first of complaints on something to fill in (7)
21 Imprison one after another, loudly (6)
23 Swiftly father is taken in by one (5)
24 Forced river bird to circle (5)
ACROSS
1 Emitting water vapour (8)
5 Irritating sensation (4)
9 Two weeks (9)
10 Rayburn-like cooker (3)
11 Tibetan monk (4)
13 Ambassador’s residence (7)
16 Palm tree’s sweet brown fruit (4)
18 Idler (6)
19 Monarch’s seat (6)
21 Concept (4)
23 Existing in name only (7)
25 Annoy (4)
27 French for ‘water’ (3)
28 Feathery ice crystal (9)
30 One try at a film scene (4)
31 Colourful pot-plant (8)
DOWN
1 Secure (4)
2 Corn spike (3)
3 Artificial (3-4)
4 Small lump of gold (6)
6 Poisonous fungus (9)
7 Stocky in stature (8)
8 Pang (4)
12 Easy profit (1,4,4)
14 ___ out, allot (4)
15 Behave cruelly to (3-5)
17 Operatic song (4)
20 Damaging (7)
22 Wilting (6)
24 Richly verdant (4)
26 Fronded plant (4)
29 Cashpoint (inits) (3)