The Scotsman

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- ROS SHERARD

ACROSS

3 Run for division (5)

8 Vegetable that causes vehicle to go rusty (6)

9 He’s proverbial­ly quick to deliver manuscript about women’s quarters (6)

10 Poet addresses the old sailor ... (6)

11 ... with negative injection on shift at floating zoo (5,3)

12 Own way to reverse black mark, perhaps (3)

13 A body’s instructio­ns for making garden ornament, complete with prime earth (6)

14 Dog’s breakfast liar used left behind (8)

17 Old woes sorted with a single aspirin, perhaps (3,4)

19 Particular accommodat­ion for racing type (3,4)

23 Muscle in as introduced to escort from online matchmaker­s list, for example (8)

27 It’s attacked by fellow and it prays (6)

29 Fish eggs that came to the surface not small (3)

30 Ship’s record and berth found in timber dwelling (3,5)

31 Take the bones out and stuff it, we’re told (6)

32 Saint who found answer by a tree (6)

33 Shoot many holes in ambiguous remark (6)

34 Dregs get right into melee (5)

DOWN

1 Not all, not all get in to Strauss opera (6)

2 Liberate from bowels of ship and give right to land (8)

3 Basilica in street that gradually narrows (2,6)

4 The French got on top of wet washing (7)

5 Twists almost swarthy Scots _ twists (6)

6 Obliterate­d record of epochs by journalist (6)

7 Many’s the spill Romeo had in Turkish city (6)

13 Icy angel I danced with (5)

15 Anger shows in regional explorer’s introducti­ons (3)

16 Stringed instrument­s made from wind instrument­s minus mouthpiece (5)

18 Male address turned up round the globe (3)

20 Scottish mains in distant Malta (4,4)

21 Her highness, say, to penalise boy appearing without dad initially (4,4)

22 French final, final offer in weight of yarn (7)

24 One leap ensures there’s plenty (6)

25 Regular walks start off with aspects of feet (6)

26 Collection­s of charitable gifts, about a bushel (6)

28 Principles, alas, do a slide (6)

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