Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 27/03/2012

Published on 27/03/2012 03:15

Tuesday’s puzzle...

Across

1 Do drawing on the layout that may come to nothing (2,4,3,5)

9 The French match section is short and to the point (7)

10 Let up and go over again about last time (7)

11 Authorisation for car (4)

12 Where Colin might get dripping wet? (5)

13 Ups the ante for mount (4)

16 Means of access around A&E make it unproductive (7)

17 Raving fellow gets one held to account (6)

19 Caught when managed to double up in centre (6)

22 What the fallen fighter did with shavings? (7)

25 General way a dreadful enmity starts (4)

26 Pub artist found in island (5)

27 Port that’s a sink of iniquity, perhaps (4)

30 Post statistic no-one can read back (7)

31 One preparing feast can allow for hesitation (7)

32 Ripping yarn about church festival on river is conservative compilation (9,5)

Down

1 Carp at good old angle (8)

2 Cleared freely through customs if nothing to this (7)

3 Accustomed to announce refusal (4)

4 Nail on roofing item, we hear, by touch (7)

5 Mistake put right with mature treatment (7)

6 Depend on fourth operation to see (4)

7 Lick into shape, ie, train out of idleness (7)

8 “What happens there, stays there,” I’ve gasped (5)

14 Are Women’s Institute members milksops? (5)

15 Is aware of feature report (5)

18 Stay around ring troubled with venomous creature (8)

20 Former servant who never married (3,4)

21 Trawler ranged at sea down to final attempt (7)

22 Better-groomed tree to be found by river (7)

23 Experience of preparing ground with original earth (7)

24 Girls wish to wear something smart and fashionable (5)

28 Deputy with immoral practice (4)

29 Fill up with Greek letters (4)

Mondays’ solution...

Across: 1 Random sample, 9 Section, 10 Pensive, 11 Rout, 12 Strip, 13 Braw, 16 Not fair, 17 Thermal, 18 Long Tom, 21 Cholera, 23 Hate, 24 Aspic, 25 Shoo, 28 Laconia, 29 Panache, 30 Disagreeable.

Down: 2 Account, 3 Dais, 4 Monster, 5 Appoint, 6 Punt, 7 Epigram, 8 Let well alone, 9 Stranglehold, 14 Party, 15 Below, 19 Noticed, 20 Mustang, 21 Cripple, 22 Ethical, 26 Ends, 27 Inca.