Cryptic crossword

Published on Monday 29 June 2009 19:28

BY Ros Sherard

ACROSS

3 Omission mark blurred outline ... (5)

8 ... to rub out what he drew in French and English (6)

9 Did Thelwell come over with the Conqueror? (6)

10 Oils, for example, left in action ... (6)

11 ... of 17 often made into gravy (8)

12 Original rock extraction (3)

13 Odd first woman in religious order (6)

14 Sculpted when posed (8)

17 Jackson's in Glasgow district (7)

19 Stanley's warm jacket (7)

23 The writing's on the wall for soldier embracing airmen in good shape (8)

27 Centre of old city doubles during season (6)

29 Receptacle for contents of 33, perhaps (3)

30 Critic Clive depressed at first with dancing girl in Paris (8)

31 Unbroken interest leading up to part in play (6)

32 Drawer of money sick, we hear (6)

33 Way out having joint before pudding? (6)

34 Scene of jailbreak, perhaps, that never got started (5)

DOWN

1 Wizard bird! (6)

2 I've got involved in award from the past (8)

3 College stimulus that's structural (8)

4 In Burlington Arcade my Royal is missing (7)

5 Leading without a break, lay gold on surface (6)

6 Painter employed in plural push (6)

7 Scot unable to admit girl to church (6)

13 Complex pun, for example, means to take off the line (5)

15 Fob off before with poetic cast (3)

16 Sticker mostly features Albrecht (5)

18 Beginning to go mouldy? (3)

20 It's cheap to combine mixture of styles (8)

21 Means of identification discovered when Anna met a peer (8)

22 Old record in among withdrawal of certificate (7)

24 It stands out in mitigation (6)

25 Al's in the open air, painting on a wall (6)

26 I took on Slade School principles (6)

28 Clue changing identity of one who worked with figures (6)

Monday's solution

Across: 1 and 4 Fall on one's feet, 10 Laminates, 11 Block, 12 Octet, 13 Chimeric, 15 Defraud, 17 Run into, 19 Arrange, 21 Time-lag, 22 Resemble, 24 Rasta, 27 Agnes, 28 Red planet, 29 and 30 Showed one's hand.

Down: 1 and 26 Fall on deaf ears, 2 Limit, 4 Noticed, 5 Nastier, 6 Sable, 7 Emotional, 8 and 14 Take for granted, 9 On a train, 16 Force into, 18 Numerals, 20 Embargo, 21 Treadle, 23 Ensure, 25 Senga.