The Brain Teaser

ACROSS

1. Tried to find the way, overwrought (6)

5. An uproar about organised crime? (6)

8. The animal has some trouble skirting the hole (5)

9. Give the quartet away with a little sign (6)

10. From the outset, you put in, a far better runner (6)

11. Because it's a violation to choose sides (5)

14. The composer points to the case (8)

16. The inferior rum you throw out (6)

18. What one's doing on a last visit to an auction room? (7,8)

20. Opens and among the top performers is tiptop (6)

22. At school, the boy is casual (8)

25. Are repeated when he leaves here with the animal (5)

27. Is the animal outside a husky? (6)

28. The people take one to be a threat (6)

29. Many a romance has been written about her (5)

30. The man, you repeat, is not unbeatable (3-3)

31. Show us a new way to amuse ourselves? (6)

DOWN

1. Sees the attraction of foreign travel? (6)

2. The trickery gets one down (4)

3. The girl I take a long time about sending out (8)

4. A bogus copper? (11,4)

5. Mentions that one thinks it best to have the piano at the top (6)

6. It's in the toy cupboard. Give the boy the key (4)

7. A land bird (6)

12. The Continental having entered fights the guards (7)

13. Because you pull up ahead (7)

15. Are among the sixteen running (5)

17. She complained of having had a turn (5)

19. Make the grass border straight again (8)

20. In the chest, folded, find a bag (6)

21. Flock to put the covers back again inside (6)

23. Left out, meant to wail about it (6)

24. Still collected (4)

26. Plant that requires sun to mature (4)