Cryptic crossword

Published on Wednesday 15 February 2012 08:20

Today’s grid

Across

1 Picture ordinary photograph with vitality (5-4)

9 Small enough specimen (6)

10 Sailor, 99, in time to give up (8)

11 14 and 33 Rep looking for openings? (4-2-4,8)

12 Remove representative, not Georgia (6)

14 See 11 across

15 Does not start game on hilltop (5)

16 Guard fed up in font of goal (6)

18 See 30

21 See 30

24 Baghdad’s natural fluency (6)

26 Quick hit I had (5)

30 18 and 21 Rabbit perhaps, one responding to nuclear device (4-7,7)

31 Signora Nora kept hiding jacket (6)

32 Pester, after time, with amplifying system (6)

33 See 11 across

34 Calmly archdeacon entered city in East Anglia (6)

35 Darkest? Most unjust (9)

DOWN

2 Pill on which inscription is written? (6)

3 Hang about, there’s nothing in American measure (6)

4 Burdened with much money? (6)

5 Slip near the wicketkeeper (7)

6 Go with real trouble in plenty (6)

7 Endlessly repeating mixing mild laxative (8)

8 Support a railway subsidiary (9)

11 Venetian magistrate trapped daughter’s duck (5)

13 No right to have attempted to have drawn (4)

17 The gradient is too much (1,3,5)

19 Gen Ernie reproduced for soldier (8)

20 Literary attempt (5)

22 Taking part being of the same type (4)

23 Star in a disguise as workman (7)

25 Expression of vain regret provided alone (2,4)

27 Father takes two different Spanish articles from dish (6)

28 Sleeping-place hesitantly found for vagrant (6)

29 Badger one animal almost and another (6)