The Brain Teaser

No. 8,585

ACROSS

3. The monk responsible for writing the songs? (3,7)

8. Being so coy and tipping the drink into the river (6)

9. Profit from article caught in trap (4)

10. New sides, it could be, for some of our cricketing opponents (4,6)

11. It's not at all clear to one so stupid (3)

13. Have a good look, say, at the landing-stage (4)

14. Losing water from the meadow, Rex concluded (7)

15. The cart is some distance back (4)

17. Nurse, perhaps, not to be trusted in money matters (5)

20. Boy servants brought to book (5)

22. A small dandelion head or some other similar plant (4)

24. Coaxes the little woman into Alec's new outfit (7)

25. The liquor, it appears, is too much for her (4)

27. The fellow is about to signify his assent (3)

28. One imagined in no small way to be a denizen of the deep (3-7)

29. Note, beer may be responsible for sea-sickness (4)

30. Sailor and Scotsman used to make way (6)

31. Military reports from a Belgian town amid the trenches (10)

1. Puts me right by the girl writer (8)

2. Is he always putting forward objections in the dairy trade? (6)

3. The man responsible for putting Trotsky away? (7)

4. A little bit of the yoghurt is for the ascetics (5)

5. Tattered clothes you might associate with students (4)

6. Managing to pass the fish (8)

7. Has a search for odd new games (8)

12. Distortion familiar to the weaver (4)

14. An instrument of really remarkable tone (4)

16. They're lines, the girl said (4)

17. Another editor transferred temporarily to other duties (8)

18. Decides on court official appearing in commercials (8)

19. So likely, in turn, to include a weight reduction (4)

21. Antoine's translation from a European language (8)

23. What a film-maker does with the new credits (7)

25. Does it make the end of term go with a bang? (6)

26. By which the old patrolmen knew what time it was? (5)

28. Country mansion in the constituency (4)