Crpytic crossword - The Scotsman 24/01/2012

ACROSS

1 One who is this is unlikely to be able to ‘urt anyone (7)

5 Execute in London suburb (5)

11 Natural deterioration shows last streak too (4,4,3,4)

12 Concept of identity each assumed (4)

13 Sharp fellow who’s differently abled (5)

14 Suffering when ‘hockey mom’ is left out (4)

17 Mourners had own portion of gloom (6)

18 I hear commissionaire has time to be sleeping (7)

20 Reported to run from lowly part of theatre to lowly kind of cinema (7)

22 Movement puts computers back in satellite (6)

24 Swings camera upside down to produce photo (4)

25 Miss one day from work out — it’s the devil! (5)

26 A method of being out (4)

29 Tea price needing fixed along old lines (7,8)

30 Carnivore with any he mangles (5)

31 Most skilful assessment of hearing to be heard (7)

DOWN

2 Increase bid on red, say, and be sorry to make a big fuss (5,1,3,3,3)

3 Rules round hills written ... (4)

4 ... up, but not as high as bird (7)

6 Business father underwrote in conclusion (4)

7 Start coarse fishing, but find more trouble than it’s really worth (4,1,3,2,5)

8 A very strong baseball team is put in position (5)

9 Frank is capable — and performed (6)

10 Tearing apart rock (7)

15 Take over an event before gymnastics (5)

16 The two of us consumed original rabbit soup (5)

19 Cheaper rate enjoyed in the foothills? (3-4)

21 The Financial Times’s description of some acquisitions? (6)

22 Met up with long heavy knife (7)

23 Instruments encompassing a heavenly resonance (5)

27 Stitched up in every direction (4)

28 Soldier on street gets drift (4)

Monday’s solution:

Across: 1 Come to light, 9 Rhone, 10 Undulate, 12 Sincere, 13 Recalls, 14 Reaps, 15 Arbitrate, 18 Tolerated, 20 Rebut, 21 Obscure, 24 Pigment, 25 Belittle, 26 Macho, 27 Undemanding.

Down: 2 Openers, 3 Exuberant, 4 Older, 5 Illicit, 6 Hotel, 7 Frustration, 8 Downfall, 11 Ostentation, 16 Bedspread, 17 Ambience, 19 Routine, 20 Requiem, 22 Stern 23 Extra.