The Scotsman

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- ROS SHERARD

ACROSS 1 Sugar you and I serve to Scandinavi­ans (7) 5 Hint at executing without fuss (5) 11 See practical fan all of a dither at 17 and 18 (5,10) 12 Throng turn up for encounter (4) 13 What small dog may do to bone when his identity is overturned (3,2) 14 Tents built around politician (4) 17 and 18 Missiles of domestic row, perhaps, that may hail from the twilight zone (6,7) 20 Injection of initial nerve makes shrinking girl become aggressive (7) 22 A variety of crocus that sometimes crops up (6) 24 Don’t start to follow the route of lamb (4) 25 Cold but nimble (5) 26 Afraid lesson’s contents are not working (4) 29 Water source that’s unhealthy will be blocked, they say – words fail me! (4,3,2,6) 30 Contempt or victory expressed by opposing means (1-4) 31 Rushed a wander er up characteri­stic glacial valley (1-6) DOWN 2 According to reports, there’s a market for Caucasian lineage leucocytes (5,5,5) 3 Studies that are endlessly impenetrab­le (4) 4 Young person gets a quiet interlude during first aid for broken arm (7) 6 A lot of Greek letter seen at church (4) 7 Cause a lot of unnecessar­y trouble to start off the Gay Gordons, for example (4,1,5,5) 8 I moan about this girl (5) 9 Aborts abrasive cleanings (6) 10 Having to mop suit destroys belief in an ideal world (7) 15 Mixing these may turn drinkers into pigs (5) 16 Shut children at some point in rabbit house (5) 19 Command respect from above western loch (7) 21 Mess about with gun after beginning of term (6) 22 Shore up collapse of old musician (7) 23 Little decoration­s given a place on cots (5) 27 I get stuck into breakfast food on island (4) 28 Thanks again and goodbye (2-2)

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