CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

1 Accepting teams that are ranging themselves with one party or another (6,5) 7 Mothers’ polite form of address (5)

10 Feel depressed and down (5) 11 Seems put out, terribly stormy (11)

12 Feeling going into producing gold? (3,5,5)

14 Penny, Old English writer! (3) 15 Green organisation gathering in one’s garden in America (4-5)

16 A couple of fellows involved in awful risk with mining shares in South Africa (7)

18 Weight of a vast rig in ruins (8)

20 Map Nehru circulated before the appearance of man! (8) 22 Choose gold constituent (7) 23 Having insufficient sound for listeners to appreciate it (9) 25 To what an extent is this a greeting? (3)

27 Relatively important tie? (6,7) 29 Purple fabled never-ending flower in the Orient (11) 30 Wild beast to beat with a stick (5)

31 Paper cover (5)

32 Best passed clockwise (5-6) DOWN

1 Patti, Beth etc. entered mountainous region (5) 2 Main murderer? (6,5)

3 Was acquainted with said novel (3)

4 Fine and settled, ready with the bazaar (3,4)

5 The dimly explosive ethane (8)

6 Left and right knees-up shattering cave-explorer (9) 7 Outstanding wedding seen on television? (5,2,3,3) 8 Languish with Pedro operating inside (5) 9 Unfortunate amnesiacs accepting iron in lawful act done unlawfully (11)

13 In reality I name Dot with disappointing work (2,5,2,4) 15 Disputatious turtles? (11) 17 Still kept out of action (11)

19 It measures density of air from remote era (9)

21 Using this tone when ringing another? (8)

24 Indisposition of one in the clutches of mental disorder (7)

26 Run shuttle from west to east on the avenue (5) 28 Surrender profit (5) 30 Uplifting support (3)