CROSSWORD Chris Leyland No. 54

ACRoSS

1 Celestial journey canonises

blessed (9)

9 Inhabiting hollow underworld

wicked villains (6)

10 Cocktail drunk in a Riga mart (9) 11 Be seated around noon on

church grass (6)

12 Getting evens on ace, heroic set I’m sassy - time to celebrate! (9)

13 It’s far from sea turning North to

South? The opposite (6) 17 Beverage from the Eastern area

originally (3)

19 13 in Caribbean rumbaed

merrily (7)

20 Ditch BBC1? (7)

21 One finds poem penned by

Sappho delightful (3)

23 With always eating Lent not

forte? It’s over now (6)

27 Chap with pork-pie maybe and

punch cocktail (9)

28 Sorrowful is maiden given such

as Justine’s abuse (6)

29 Where men deny king universal

sway? (9)

30 Spotless US squaddie

entertained by six sailors (6) 31 A new fold in trawl that’s off

Massachusetts coast (9)

DoWn

2 What’s hilariously jammed by

southeast band? (6)

3 Have one’s say with editor over drink around start of evening (4,2)

4 Bearing right grudge is imp (6) 5 Coating of silver is extravagant

causing indignation (7) 6 Yankees in reform following top

economist (9) 7 Unprepared I strain to contain

seizure (9)

8 Lilies that may be fashioned into

old shapes (9)

14 Compulsive old boy to look

round ship No. 4 (9) 15 Endlessly cross gloomy leaders of expeditions repulsing Saladin (9)

16 Ie hurls PR about being in

charge (9) 17 Rising grain or source of

Chinese philosophy (3)

18 One expert for top arts body (3) 22 Doctor and a copper, note, in

horror novel (7)

24 Kent district that includes

northeast (6)

25 A male in charge of nuclear

power (6)

26 Last of slow squad in valley

bring up rear? (6)