CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Supporter of favoured football team operates by hand (8) 5 Can it be believed? Losing a quarter, I’ll eat my hat if it’s this! (6) 9 Gains may be built up in places for exercise (8) 10 Better he takes a boat on the river (6) 12 Part of fire at which to warm limbs, perhaps, but not head (6) 13 Road charges alter duplication of trade instruments (5) 16 House that’s more ancient than one in current possession (6) 17 This poem’s about the Devil (8) 20 These are famous for being short-lived _ Theresa has to leave quickly (8) 21 He gives out extract from Paris Sue requested (6) 23 Nordic leader returned, bringing Spanish hero (2,3) 25 Double page to spell, then speak aloud (6) 28 Antidepressant prescribed when literature’ s announced on university website? (6) 29 Girl who has a lad line-up (8) 30 Ploughman used to steer boat (6) 31 Accusations of anti-social behaviour surrounding establishment of heatresistant material (8)

DOWN

1 Wise men enlist scholar and soldier (4) 2 Count without hesitation till losing all feeling (4) 3 Warning device is all-marble creation (5,4) 4 French department in which to loiter carelessly (6) 6 Be uncertain _ but do it anyway (5) 7 Loses nerve about what we used to put for milkman (7,3) 8 The aristocracy woo Kensington district (5,5) 11 Not having the correct angle like botanic gardens (5) 14 Jerry: MP both care about (10) 15 Disguise emotions, we hear, at kindergarten (10) 18 Both our thanks are included for response to allergen (9) 19 Iron a shirt that’s stripped out for banquet (5) 22 Hearts, say, played on in churches (6) 24 Die for an ingestion of this steak? (5) 26 and 27 Apartment limits headgear symbolic of working men (4,4)