CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wonderland illustrator is lenient with alterations (7)

5 Sacrificial animals found by man entering areas where scientific experiments take place (5)

11 Concerned with influential power group setting up again (2-13)

12 Someone first heard you and I had model outfit (4)

13 Count unknown number coming before expected ... (5)

14 ... and the others return after the appointed time (2,2)

17 Eg road travelled to get qualification (1-5) 18 Associated with movers from American religious community (7)

20 Having fixed on unit, attacked from defensive position (7)

22 Kids take vessels for assembling buttermaking equipment (6)

24 Received emotional reception at protest meeting (4) 25 Beam shone over artificial silk (5)

26 Can this city sink so endlessly low? (4) 29 Stiffs put in trench, say, in gangsters’ coffins (6,9)

30 Tired as you first follow 27 when things 21 (5)

31 Gang of outlaws formed from bits and pieces (7)

DOWN

2 Flower still in good and proper pink (7,8) 3 They can be used to catch birds turned out from their home (4)

4 Give a warm welcome to rebuilt camber following last scrape (7)

6 Taking the lid off secret store is a pain (4) 7 Pass away when feverish tone heals in breast (7,4,4)

8 Papers put down with dismissal to eat (5) 9 Books’ ownerships (6) 10 Unprofitably puzzled (2,1,4)

15 About 6 at need of transport (5) 16 Louisiana cuisine found roundabout midsummer month (5)

19 Paddy sees tree felled (7)

21 Become tedious about mythical monster (4,2)

22 Coral he smashed resulted in serious disease (7)

23 Fine yarn journalist picked out as extremely poor quality (5)

27 Exhibit erosion (4)

28 Drug found by a police department (4)