WEEKEND CROSS WORD SINCE 1846

No 3290

ACROSS

3 Amount to make sense (3,2) 8 Little room to fail in court (6) 9 One turn the Parisian made in the country (6) 10 Good value from robber in the main! (6) 11 Type of jerks needing bodily strength (8) 12 Love coming from Manila (3) 13 Italian family had three-quarters of the drugs (6) 14 Turnout that is compulsory (8)

17 19, 27 and 30 Reversing order of old transport (7,3,4,6,3,5) 19 See 17 23 Repeated exercise with part of removable cutting head (5,3) 27 See 17 29 Secure most of layer (3) 30 See7 31 Widow had time with souvenir first (6) 32 Patrick has reduced part to protect (6) 33 Take no notice of Italian gentlemen not on board (6) 34 No less an actor (5)

DOWN

1 Said position for fish (6) 2 Bacon or Lamb maybe (8) 3 Hat Annie removed from one from the capital (8) 4 Not much of a waterfall (7) 5 Pulp, before year one, ancient writing materials (6) 6 Number one specialist (6) 7 Dangerous, a slope in Texan city (2,4) 13 1960s teenager included exercises on bike (5) 15 Remedy Romeo leaves for Rod (3) 16 Fertiliser can lifted again (5) 18 Millicent’s part somewhat unfortunate (3) 20 It was Ireland or Bahrein I confused (8) 21 Posh fellows in prison had decorative fastener (4,4) 22 A short-time worker’s put in double time and endeavour (7) 24 Are the ingredients mixed in order to raise the temperature again? (6) 25 Oh, real trouble in Asian city (6) 26 Burglar arranged to enter illegally (6) 28 On which it is publicly known as the best yet (6)