CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Unusual pieces of Welsh dishes (8) 5 and 10 Tick off pop star vocalising woolly bear (6,6) 9 Tame lizard that could be fitted into eg pocket (5,3) 10 See5 12 Attach strings then, according to instructions, peg out craftwork (3,3,3) 13 Poet implicated revered antecedent (5) 14 Trying to help when unable to see start of attack (6) 17 Scholar was first to have put hay into bundles (5) 20 Complete thickness conceals code of conduct (5) 21 Succeeds in examination of football moves (6) 24 Victorian novelist is impervious to exposure (5) 25 Incandescent bag meter reader let out (3,6) 28 Euro-sceptic will reveal almost exact opposite (6) 29 Received roughly what was rumoured (3,5) 30 Hustle flummoxed detective (6) 31 Down with achievement attributed to girl (8)

DOWN

1 and 2 Unfortunately, Grace is short on Cinderella story (4,2,6) 3 Tanned after being tossed by the wind from one side to the other (5) 4 Harris, say, affected daughter (5) 6 Blame dean for getting wrong what can be put right (9) 7 It is obvious that I will have to depart with forbearance (8) 8 Divers complaint means no date for invading Greek city (3,5) 11 Assesses sound methods (6) 15 Wanderlust caused by pedal trouble? (5,4) 16 Dispute the validity of pumping out without introduction (6) 18 Yokels he operated on with less invasive surgical procedures (8) 19 Want label on beach (8) 22 Rest OK, happily, with caress (6) 23 Beds for new babies, we hear (6) 26 Quiet individual was brilliant (5) 27 A great combination to stop at sea (5)