The Scotsman

ACROSS

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1 Team on the way up with an advertisin­g campaign (9)

8 Ipswich boss, at heart, got a warning sign (5)

10 Finish things off playing all 18 holes on the links (5)

13 Suitable footwear designed for some coaches (8)

15 She always takes part in the Melrose Sevens (3)

16 Top marks for old sports body at Alloa, Ayr and Annan, initially (3)

17 Make demands on someone. It’s one’s duty (3)

18 Knocks out the top order like ninepins (8)

19 Boy entitled to play in a Highland League team (4)

22 Team spurred on to perform in new stadium (9)

23 Tearful type dishearten­ed, but quite serious (5)

25 Sounds like a bribe offered to a European team (6)

28 Near mix-up by European inspectors (8)

30 Head off a fallen midfielder for Wales and Stoke (5)

31 Sends the ball to a team-mate then moves on (6)

32 Referred things to another team on the way down (9)

DOWN

1 Country-lovers playng in the NFL

(8)

2 Scots complain about mine, as it were (4)

3 A tenor managed to get decorated (6)

4 Have time to eat in the ring, and is paying for everyone (8)

5 Get rid of the Open University’s model (4)

6 Make progress to win 1 across, perhaps (7)

7 Time’s up for the former Scotland boss (4,7)

9 Popular indoor sport in the US, for example (10)

11 Test, in fact, an athlete’s moral fibre (4)

12 Targets for strikers, but not servers (4)

14 Take a chance to organise ski run, initially (4)

20 Warning from the Mad Hatter (6) 21 Collect things for a church service (5)

24 Call up some of the fringe players

(4)

26 Compose some verses in Irish Gaelic (4)

27 See top display by a highly ranked tennis player (4)

28 Hearing to be held in the near future (3)

29 Had no time to encounter an old Arsenal boss(3)

Winner of the £30 Love To Shop vouchers last week was Lesley Dobson, Galashiels.

Entries to: Crossbar competitio­n, The Scotsman, 30 Queensferr­y Road, Edinburgh EH4 2HS. The winner’s name and solution will be published next Monday. The Scotsman Publicatio­ns Ltd employees and their families are not eligible. The Editor’s decision is final.

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