Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman

ACROSS

1 Polar headache exchanged for headache relief? (7)

5 St Christopher’s comic performances (5)

11 Very well prepared: prepared to heed junction between two parts of body (5,2,3,5)

12 Consumes central meal with original tea and supper (4)

13 Wait for prompt to be heard (5)

14 Labour to extract works from earth (4)

17 It’s most wise to tell a joke in speech (6)

18 One kind of vest or another (7)

20 A vehicle I have found to be offensive (7)

22 Oil has been treated as a matter of Islamic rulings (6)

24 Room allocated within shopping precinct (4)

25 Crow sees snakes beginning to twitch (5)

26 Spirit of angel anticipating revelation (4)

29 Friend honed gift in another way so there was no discrepancy (7,8)

30 Finally eliminate rotten resin (5)

31 Novel way to be free but run in (7)

DOWN

2 Be arrested and finish sentence (4,2,1,4,4)

3 For example, spotted Dick’s standing up to short Dick (4)

4 There’s a toastie for tea, they say, with game (7)

6 One to fly with equipment and energy (4)

7 Draw all together to broadcast to everyone (3,5,2,5)

8 Looked right through the alphabet after first go (5)

9 Grave robbers disturbed in Slough (6)

10 Buildings that almost accommodate the class when assembled (7)

15 Danger of washing powder without using soap first (5)

16 Kick up a stink about sweaters, say (5)

19 Blocking musicians playing impromptu (7)

21 No huge construction is adequate (6)

22 Pompous speech got Scotsman bothered, we hear (7)

23 Dines out on something catty (5)

27 Put a hex on frolics, we hear (4)

28 Fliers take a dive in the distance (4)

Monday’s solution

Across: 1 Come into line, 8 Aspires, 9 Records, 11 Ewer, 12 Prolongate, 14 Passed, 15 Vehement, 17 Imitates, 19 Deepen, 22 Emphasised, 23 Mesh, 25 Nailing, 26 Amateur, 27 Stressing out.

Down: 1 Coppers, 2 More, 3 Insert, 4 Thriller, 5 Licence fee, 6 Narrate, 7 Takes pride in, 10 Sheet-anchors, 13 Separative, 16 Besieges, 18 Imprint, 20 Prevent, 21 Detain, 24 Sago.