Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 06/12/2011

ACROSS

1 When part of theatre is booked out, you’re back where you started (4,4,6)

9 Foreign article addresses tedious illness (7)

10 Middleman accepts top quality ceramic ware (7)

11 The girl would be found in hut (4)

12 Tree with less on top when crown removed (5)

13 Beverage that’s first found at top of bottle (4)

16 Fireweed came up at Aberlady, for example (7)

17 ,19 Support wildlife as if born to it (6,6)

22 Sweet meal prepared and taken by private transport (7)

25 Go off shortly and bungle (4)

26 French monk — French before, that is (5)

27 Sharpen up when it’s boiling but damp round about (4)

30 Big-time and wealthy, but no flier and selectively blind (7)

31 Train, ie cultivate, stillness (7)

32 Relax efforts when rare stones soon break up (4,2,4,4)

DOWN

1 Adapted or closed face spot (4,4)

2 Little girls clean animals at home (7)

3 Animal last seen in 18th century returns to peatland country (4)

4 See your original supporter in faithful mode (7)

5 Cuba presents financial resources (7)

6 Come down to rule, it’s reported (4)

7 Possibly learn about books and see the light (7)

8 Goddess who’s a match for anyone (5)

14 Sailor’s finished, more or less (5)

15 Connection between old wound and last post (5)

18 High lands with river on southern continent (8)

20 Preacher takes job in Tennent’s, perhaps (7)

21 Put leader at far end near the clay (7)

22 Continue, we hear, as dead meat (7)

23 Mother carries cap for spiritual master (7)

24 Silver’s reduced on fire (5)

28 General Assembly is taking a straight line without Catholics (4)

29 Less than a hundred obtain pain relief electrically (4)

Monday’s solution

Across: 1 Rosemary, 5 Appeal, 9 Business, 10 Donate, 12 Ginger, 13 Ghost, 16 Around, 17 Complain, 20 Abridges, 21 Demean, 23 Hacks, 25 Across, 28 Toiled, 29 Evermore, 30 Senate, 31 One-sided.

Down: 1 Ruby, 2 Sash, 3 Mentioned, 4 Resign, 6 Prong, 7 Elaborated, 8 Lieutenant, 11 Brood, 14 Parachutes, 15 Correction, 18 Pleasures, 19 Recap, 22 Craven, 24 Scent, 26 Ford, 27 Head.