CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

7 What bellringers are doing being familiar? (7,3,5) 9 Nocturnal bird producing overlapping cries! (7,3) 10 Strangely precise, not second formula (6)

11 Can be most of the stolen goods (3)

12 Meeting for those who are late? (6)

14 Person who is informative about money matters (6) 15 Singularly leading on top (3-2)

17 Strongly-built firm supporter (8)

19 Try to take bath with energy using this from laboratory! (4,4)

20 Vast file about day of celebration (8) 22 Negotiating a fort, Don moving both ways (2,3,3) 24 Either way it is unacceptable (3,2)

25 There’s no necessity to have such extravagance (6)

27 It modifies the blood and may be vent (6)

29 Biblical mount (3)

30 Streak round performer on ice (6)

31 Under the influence of alcohol, cousin’s pen slipped (2,4,4)

32 One has to last to be first in this (4,2,9)

DOWN

1 New style our ships must follow (6)

2 But it doesn’t go all round theatre (6)

3 Blissfully unenlightened (8) 4 The lady will reveal and pay up (5,3)

5 Fourth-rate lines, rubbish that could bring the house down (3,3) 6 Took risks with detailed working description after due time in town (10) 7 Passed beyond the pail! (6,3,6)

8 Older folk at start of autumn? (9,6)

13 Subdue one of the herd (3) 15 Morgan’s housing instrument (5)

16 Accident prone Argentinian (5) 18 Effective and colourful way of measuring quality or success (6,4)

21 Poles did topple out of proportion (8)

22 Don’t do my camouflage for puffin (3-5)

23 An uplifting gentle sleep (3) 26 Plant missile at bottom of yard (6)

27 Coy, about to make a mistake with wine (6) 28 Lanthanum, copper and sodium put into gap (6)