Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 07/08/12

Published on 07/08/2012 08:54

Tuesday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Line with ribs tomake tastier dish (7)

5 React badly to ramshackle plane (5)

11 One suddenly realised how money could be lost (3,5,7)

12 Found concealed belowearly clothes (4)

13 Leading trees, leading trees (5)

14 A long wayoff on safari, but not South India (4)

17 How much fibre has one trying to wish away the Holocaust, for example? (6)

18 Chucks USPs, perhaps (7)

20 Robin, maybe, will be sick, holding back tear (7)

22 Go to pieces at a rum shock (6)

24 The majority entered first selection in test (4)

25 Dangerous animal, fashionable on river, is heard to be whited sepulchre with…(5)

26 …caustic reading I took initially as review (4)

29 Paid for supplies at checkout, having not moved an inch (5,5,5)

30 Filled with apathy personified? Quite the contrary (5)

31 Sensitivity to every little bit of work, you start (7)

DOWN

2 What toddlers often want to hear at bedtime: Queen Anne’s dead (3,4,3,5)

3 I call footballer a goat (4)

4 North African city that’s constructed of granite (7)

6 Screen ends up being used as entrance barrier (4)

7 Often he was heard grieving after having to kill, giving Irish salutation (3,2,3,7)

8 Studies hard, gives up, puts away (5)

9 A theologian’s at university – that makes sense (4,2)

10 Speak to the situation (7)

15 Five in den face up to opponent (5)

16 Animal seen in classical arcade last night (5)

19 Empires may be built upon this foundation (7)

21 It’s a dangerous age if one’s dry and losing last freshness (6)

22 The usual mess in claypit (7)

23 Coral construction to be placed in lobby without capital (5)

27 Gets another alleged tool (4)

28 Skye, for example, lies indifferent setting (4)

Monday’s solution:

Across: 1 Bear arms, 5 Parade, 9 Look away, 10 Impede, 12 Earnestly, 13 Reign, 14 Plasma, 17 Blast, 20 Obama, 21 Nested, 24 Sight, 25 Transient, 28 Debris, 29 Truncate, 30 Reeled, 31 Reverent.

Down: 1 Belief, 2 Aboard, 3 Aware, 4 Meant, 6 Admirable, 7 American, 8 Eternity, 11 Bypass, 15 Leastwise, 16 Senate, 18 Consider, 19 Tangible, 22 Negate, 23 Attest, 16 Agree, 27 Since.