Cryptic Crossword

Published on Wednesday 24 June 2009 19:03

Today's Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1 It's not right to break too soon (5,5)

9 Poke fun at European value system (4)

10 Message could be to surrender allegiance (10)

11 Mitigated the effect of having to eat bad produce (6)

12 Have facility on-line to support art (5)

15 Town gates found on the left side, initially (5)

18 Gulf created by lake in sand-bar (5)

19 First sign could be rudimentary (7)

20S ecure control of train, in succession (5)

21B ury something in the earth, right from the start (5)

22 Read, etc, about being established (7)

23 Encourages, from start to finish, to go for acceleration (5)

24 Manoeuvres 12 across, left out by Sweden (5)

26 Bound to take son to the Borders (5)

29 Offer money to caretaker (or nurse) (6)

31 One accountant claimed to play for Hamilton (10)

32 Still uniform, at the end of the day (4)

33 Tempted fate, having finished with cross (10)

DOWN

2 Have the last word in a game; naturally (4)

3 Inspire enthusiasm, within reason (6)

4 Bored with the first short story (5)

5 It's a mistake to be out of kilter (5)

6 Heavyweight took on a trainee of sound quality (5)

7 Claims to step out with a long, misshapen spoon, at first (10)

8 Boosts the chances of captain getting some jade on board ship (4,6)

13 I need to cook with a second flavour (7)

14 Record some valuable fibre, to the letter (7)

15 Leader on track to take 30 down before me ... (4,6)

16 ... and is a ground-cuckoo like an athlete off-track? (4-6)

17 About to leave square after that time (5)

18 Long to get into the team on a slippery slope (5)

25 Tear after a runner in order to get there (6)

26 Get rid of a bit of copper, as expected (5)

27 Follow good run with 1,000 (5)

28 It's hard to look over new form of opalescence (5)

30 Was it a small step for some US spacemen? (4)

Yesterday's solution

Across: Go native, 5 Swedes, 9 In demand, 10 Staler, 11 Theorist, 13 Quiche, 14 Hex, 16 Psycho, 19 Fissure, 20 Humbug, 21 Pot, 26 Oliver, 27 Pooh-pooh, 28 Ibidem, 29 Cavalier, 30 Rankle, 31 Horlicks.

Down: 1 Gaiety, 2 Nudged, 3 Timbre, 4 Vanish, 6 Wet-nurse, 7 Delicacy, 8 Surveyor, 12 Tea-shop, 15 Jig, 16 Pry, 17 Choosier, 18 Ambition, 19 Funereal, 22 Tomato, 23 Thrall, 24 Zodiac, 25 Chorus.