CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Some clad in rags by one threatened with a sword (8) 5 The gap opens up for home hanging facility (6) 9 Alerts to Facebook friends put label on strong drink which girls are following (8) 10 Coffin bearer catches the sound of last rite (6) 12 and 25 Diet popular in which 11, 13 and 41 are further examples leads to early death (3,4,2,4,5) 13 Depicted as sore inside even in Eden (5) 14 Bargain at length about horse in healthy environment (6) 17 Penny ditches writer to run away and get married (5) 20 Indian dish dressed up in regalia tiara (5) 21 For example, Scotsman devoting time to overture, while ... (6) 24 ... Welsh guy returns to body of church on Sunday (5) 25 See 12 28 Visionary is waggish, losing head (6) 29 Citizens bring back food belonging to the woman (8) 30 Talks about crest of wave coming on board (6) 31 Country folk remove rugby post from game (8)

DOWN

1 Ached to melt round final post and unstick (6) 2 Is it possible for an unknown to become powerful? (6) 3 Company adopts space in Egyptian city (5) 4 Leaving out a very troubled Moray town (5) 6 and 15 A probe into farmer’s fire risk is something extremely hard to pin down (1,6,2,1,8) 7 Travelling toilet found at pool or otherwise (8) 8 Enter age of preparing healthy beverage (5,3) 11 Saint who found the answer sitting on a tree (6) 15 See6 16 Became more appealing as matured (4,2) 18 This gives our reunion a kind of bodily harm (8) 19 Ute a girl repaired with tie-cord (8) 22 French writer writing about biblical character (6) 23 Centaur you and I discovered on monster’s loch (6) 26 Publicity missing from introduction leads to escape (5) 27 Calls out loud for sheets (5)