Western Morning News

Cryptic crossword

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Across

1 Prison officer's

pay? (5)

6 Dump at the

roadside (5)

9 Black neckwear for

moles (7)

10 In a group, we are

nice (5)

11 Go furtively about

forging links (5)

12 He's unlikely to give you more than fifty quid (5)

13 Guns associated with

assault (7)

15 Figure I'm on the

go (3)

17 The burden on the

States (4)

18 Choose the dunderhead's way to roll the dice (6)

19 Love to make a fuss

about (5)

20 Grills said to be for

salmon (6)

22 Peter's very reliable (4) 24 Trendy joint (3)

25 It's comparativ­ely easy to smile about a novice (7) 26 Passed drink round,

one happy day (5) 27 Sweet extract of

asparagus, possibly (5) 28 Inclinatio­n to show

class (5)

29 Emit the response an appealing player wants (4,3)

30 It's a dirty lie! (5)

31 In Scotland, it's ne'er

pronounced 'north' (5)

Down

2 Father of a

cowboy? (6)

3 Throws out an unlucky

pilot, perhaps? (6)

4 We finish last when

it's raining (3)

5 So try to change an

account (5)

6 Woman wanted? (7) 7 Should insular types

live on one? (4)

8 Frank has the ability,

having performed (6) 12 Wild deer, having had nothing to eat, will eat away (5) 13 Can be said to bow under a climber's weight (5)

14 Black is a novel colour

for one (5)

15 It's essential to relocate some

Latvians (5)

16 It takes money to feed

one (5)

18 Run away with a faint

hearted doctor! (5) 19 Endlessly hoping for a

pain-killer (7)

21 Is this classic fire

dance just routine? (6) 22 With part in South Africa, how could it have been Greek? (6) 23 Protection for some

offenders (6)

25 Figure a soccer manager has captured Tottenham's heart (5) 26 Mindless insistence on silence at the day centre (4)

28 Weapon, presumably a

good one (3)

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