WEEKEND CROSSWORD

No 3238

ACROSS

1 Might top filming during reduction in electrical supply (5,3) 5 Last character getting hyperactive having wind (6) 9 Dial, unhurried (4-4) 10 In need of food country area’s lacking (6) 11 Troubled choirmaster Sam left oratory (8) 13 Unaccented beat on a lute was included (6) 14 Hospital in opposite directions is part of it (1,1,1) 16 Spongy soup or brew (6) 19 Garland carved out of stone! (7) 20 Presenter’s bird reached river first (6) 21 Liveliness in both directions (3) 26 Share with family taking most of filth first (4,2) 27 Car delayed first during very hot day (8) 28 A Spaniard is a handsome youth (6) 29 Spirited game? (3,5) 30 Encourage some Essex horticulturists (6) 31 Betty, Raymond and Alan’s treachery (8)

DOWN

1 Father left to make an attempt, how petty (6) 2 Get out, I have to enter hostilities (6) 3 Magical robot with energy inside to start computer again (6) 4 Waif staggering not starting or finishing (6) 6 Quite a variation on mathematical statement (8) 7 Peak time (4,4) 8 Solitary sort of cavalier (8) 12 Talk incessantly about madman at tea party (7) 15 Vital opener (3) 16 Pass for whales (3) 17 Paradisiacal drink? (5,3) 18 But it might be used for wiping coffee cups (3,5) 19 Spirit to be acquainted with (8) 22 European accepted it had been refined (6) 23 Lover, one with Dora say (6) 24 Part of wicket before end of day was short and thick (6) 25 Team from Plymouth, say, or Oban area (6)