CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Chat-up offering, perhaps, that creates international division (4,4)

5 No case can be made out for seas (6) 9 Chase off ticket-seller at tie-breaker (5-3) 10 Excavated refuge of the French with sore feet (6) 12 Say sipped something soupy _ got indigestion (9) 13 Manic rat enclosed in confines of cage for dog (5) 14 Blows fishing boat (6) 17 It may transform friendship (5) 20 Concerning a fight (5) 21 Made sister accept to leave off (6) 24 When more costly lacks publicity it becomes more cool (5) 25 Asian river with European levels of acidity (9) 28 Play ball with good egg _ it’s round (6) 29 Relax in wet weather on extreme northern isle (8) 30 Supporting position where play is allowed (6) 31 Parts of course demonstrate equitable methods (8)

DOWN

1 Libertine writer hailed as education upholder (2,4) 2 Drunkenly I toast Chinese philosophical path (6) 3 Machine consisting of French and English articles (5) 4 Names of elements on sun (5) 6 Commit violence at school in middle-range seating (4,5) 7 An anonymous fantasizer is sweet-smelling (8) 8 It seems the lad’s lost nothing joining auction house (8) 11 Flowers one left out on platforms (6) 15 Lovely Rita’s away in dreamtime (5,4) 16 Scared to upset small units (6) 18 Starting to like lecture once lecturer leaves (6,2) 19 Land oneself with plenty of fellow fliers (2-6) 22 A pastry’s laid down in layers (6) 23 Poses as a noise abatement society (6) 26 Animal viewed by probationer and amateur (5) 27 It revolves in both directions (5)