THE WEE STINKER

ACROSS

1 Shambles shop (8)

5 Catch or kick back (4) 8 Newborn (8)

9 God provincial party

backed (4)

11 A mother or father (4) 13 Smalls (5)

16 Twin of one’s 17 (4)

18 Order firm’s jiffies (6) 20 Burma’s ghosts (6)

21 Search (4)

23 Claws cloves (5)

24 e.g. restricting tense

visit (4)

28 Off a path (4)

29 Deemed (8)

30 It can 21 stock (4)

31 Foe of 5 (5,3)

DOWN

1 Indecent neighbour (4) 2 God in Clydesdale (4) 3 Picked up one in

crowd (5)

4 States of relief (6)

6 Commonplace book

(8)

7 Consideration (8)

10 Wodehouse’s choice

(4)

12 A key rune (4) 14 21 lads spread shocking

reports (8)

15 3’s initial 3 like 5 (8)

17 A one-time relative (4)

19 Mount more than 1 down

(4) 22 Suppose 16’s male? (6) 25 Vigilant (5)

26 Wisconsin’s power delusion? (4)

27 Lighting half of 8 (4)