Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 05/03/2012
Across
1 Virtue will follow display of benevolence (4,4)
5 Timeless box-set in short supply (6)
9 Contracting to record band (8)
10 Offer to give fellow a note (6)
12 Have barely enough money, commonly, to score (9)
13 Italian runner, in time, may get the drift (5)
14 Concentrate on meeting-place as the focal point (6)
17 Can begin to pin one’s faith being spotless (5)
20 Fail to get round, although at liberty (5)
21 Is in the balance, yet put up a fight (6)
24 To make fun of delinquent is out of order (5)
25 Manage to live at one height (9)
28 Old head took one kind of drug (6)
29 Take double portion of fruit, we’re told, for Eastern disease (8)
30 Watch out for critique of pamphlet (6)
31 Reckon I’m getting involved in property (8)
Down
1 Manages to overtake, going round first saloon (4,2)
2 Was rare raptor found in a large quarry? (6)
3 Including first line, promise the earth (5)
4 Loin-cloth for one after taking a breather (5)
6 Investigates probability of having spectacles (9)
7 Side are left out, having made some money (8)
8 Choosing to round off poll with some force (8)
11 One working to get out of downturn had a break (6)
15 Cite green growth as quite vigorous (9)
16 Went off to run in harmony on day one (6)
18 Take it easy in peaceful county (4,4)
19 Driver had a 23 down first (and last) (8)
22 Is it commonplace to screen a medicine-man, in part? (6)
23 Implement a generator, at one’s convenience (6)
26 Quits, although odds offer an equal chance (5)
27 Find an excuse to take a Latin book back to Italy (5)