FRIDAY’S SOLUTION ACROSS:

Across

1 Courtier’s total victory? (4,3,3,5)

9 Immobilising gun is not electronic

question (5)

10 Paint beneath fur (9)

11 Pillion has spilt varnish (4,6)

12 Tommy therefore included fable

(4)

14 Modern New York writer included

has money (3,5)

16 Finally dispose of his book

perhaps nothing less (6)

18 Badger one animal almost and

another (6)

19 Amphibian, male, right in the

mist (8)

21 Town in Caithness or

Warwickshire (4)

22 Unhappy down here (2,3,5)

25 RAF rescue arranged to turn up

again (9)

26 Short musical opening (5)

27 Unfavourable or useful to Sidney

on the way back first (15)

Down

1 Told how entering could be a way

to progress on earth (3,2,2,3,5)

2 Mother said most of it was an

African language (5)

3 It is barely tantalising (10)

4 Dishevelling scruffy long suit (8)

5 One who receives maximum

exposure (6)

6 Pure water (4)

7 Eight having timber measure

(3-2-4)

8 Go to excess having reached

elevated land (3,3,4,5)

13 Dog sliding off forcing someone

out of position (10)

15 Smart cows disturbed small

muddy heaps (9)

17 His guest became most effusively

sentimental (8)

20 In the bank a rash amount of

capital (6)

23 Man gets up to say a few words

(5)

24 Fellow, revolutionary fellow (4)

1 Before Midnight, 9 Chicory, 10 Cologne, 11 and 12 Mesa Verde, 13 Feds, 16 Non-skid, 17 Shandy, 19 Format, 22 Beef Tea, 25 Aide, 26 and 27 Dirty Work, 30 Lateral, 31 Mae West, 32 Bright and Early.

DOWN: 1 Becoming, 2 Frisson, 3 Root, 4 Mayweed, 5 Decodes, 6 Ills, 7 High-end, 8 Least, 14 Skims, 15 Fared, 18 Basketry, 20 Oldster, 21 Triplet, 22 Bitumen, 23 Two-year, 24 Sally, 28 Brag, 29 We’re