Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 13/08/12

Published on 13/08/2012 00:00

Monday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Have unrestricted use of space in spare room (8)

5 Rolls up to supply small shops (6)

9 Have mixed feelings in the intermission (8)

10 Clever boy has authority, in truth (6)

12 Loved to get a party embarrassed (6)

13 Promise to write out shift time (5)

16 Pull a fast one to get the better of fool (6)

17 Struggled to design a roundabout (8)

20 Instructing one on passing through well (8)

21 Won’t get on, to turn up later (3,3)

23 Close to being under control, though drunk (5)

25 With clear conscience, replace model with force to clean up (6)

28 Key to old writer to the Queen (6)

29 Mean to have upright pattern (8)

30 I’m on the wrong street (6)

31 Hardly any follow suggestion, so have no idea (8)

DOWN

1 Gone far away, at sea (4)

2 Heads take over second slip on pitch (4)

3 Step over plant during the daily grind (9)

4 Want to take opposing hands in awful surroundings (6)

6 Changes formats of some performances (5)

7 Declining to retreat in good order (10)

8 Pay below par, but find somewhere to stay (6,4)

11 Saw a first date on time (5)

14 Agrees on limits, in some circumstances (10)

15 In single file before match, without a type of undershirt (6,4)

18 Small number take umbrage, but not personally (2,7)

19 Unproductive in record time (5)

22 Dance off line with routine could be crass (6)

24 Motif edging into hollow tube (5)

26 Left from hereabouts at speed (4)

27 I would lead off in two directions on fateful day long ago (4)