The Brain Teaser

No. 8,589

ACROSS

1. For man, vermin bear ill will (6) 4. The wild waves, or what subdued them? (8) 10. The picture one has of a doctor: frightening (7) 11. Aim to get the boy out of foreign parts (7) 12. An animal, a cross, with a crest (4) 13. Wishing you hadn't made the hole so big? (4,6) 16. Back the cat goes to the lion caught inside (6) 17. More drinks for the many fliers milling about (7) 20. The hole the American agents filled with paint (7) 21. It gets one on edge, the way bad weather does (6) 24. Ordinary running speed at which a train travels (10) 25. Be told a woman has got caught (4) 27. The foreigner is as funny in the series (7) 29. Have it in for the murderer not run in (7) 30. Lived in at the time by the disordered Dante (8) 31. Stick by the head, in trouble again (6)

DOWN

1. Nonsense! Get help back to me and an arbitrator (8) 2. Don't take to be faster than (5,6) 3. Break for a little something to eat (4) 5. Got worse, that's right, and passed on (8) 6. Rise you don't take for granted (10) 7. She dodges Des afterwards (3) 8. Very composed, reining in a frisky steed (6) 9. About the surrounding era you go along with (5) 14. Spring-time? (7,4) 15. Doing it, gets cut (10) 18. Charm will get you through (8) 19. In taking Father Dean on, violate it (8) 22. The courage to carry it off (6) 23. Look on as a duty (5) 26. I aim to trap her (4) 28. The numbers are escalating, child (3)