Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 22/08/2012

Published on 22/08/2012 02:40

Wednesday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Some feel troubled seeing lady on her own (4,4)

5 Angelic assistant hid alcoholic drink (6)

10 Feeling an emotion (9)

11 New driver goes after fruit stone (5)

12 Belonging to me in red perhaps covered with white fur (7)

13 Descriptive term for the pet I removed (7)

14 About to be inserted in maps of French city (8)

17 Like calendars that are old-fashioned (5)

19 and 21 Number by border move rapidly when given strict instruction to vote (5-4,4)

24 Some schemer, sonneteer, one from America (7)

25 How to set baby free? (7)

27 Look round length having shiny exterior (5)

28 Job’s dummy? (9)

29 Greet family group leader walking (6)

30 Girl, we hear, got learner included, multilinguist (8)

DOWN

1 Angler’s Shipping Forecast area (6)

2 Note written up just the same (5)

3 One producing mass of eggs coming from resort, fluttering wren! (7)

4 Chap landed in Scotland (5)

6 Mathematics put to practical use (7)

7 Western filmed at this junction? (9)

8 Isolation of repositioned outside left (8)

9 and 15 Divine mounted messengers having toasted snack (6-2-9)

16 Turn over and over top part of jersey (8)

18 Halt gent performing monotonously and tediously (2,6)

20 Ernest confused about inclusion of one Indian perhaps (7)

22 Gracefully tall and slender tree before end of May (7)

23 A desert animal curtailed followed by another one on biblical mount (6)

25 Dimwit slinging mud has smell (5)

26 Valerie holds item that is life-giving (5)