Cryptic Crossword - The Scotsman 03/09/14

Wednesday’s puzzle
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ACROSS

1 Banned Latin getting into a frenzy with arrangement of facts (10)

6 A spinner on the summit (4)

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10 Shortly disguised in gear-tooth (5)

11 See 16

12 Was twisting the bandage (6)

13 A nut set out with painful complaint (7)

15 Regularly need reviews for anxiety (6)

16 and 11 One stands and hopes to get a seat (8,9)

19 Struggling designer gave up office (8)

21 I leave serviceman to join up (6)

24 Strip that’s a bright colour reduced gradually (7)

26 Initially smoked fish stink (6)

28 Fracas Eve was involved in, with it she avoided loss of dignity (4-5)

29 Not much of a fight (5)

30 Only £1 (4)

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31 Make a picture of parts of felled trees at end of play (4,6)

DOWN

1 Slender tailless object (4)

2 See 18

3 Wiling recipient? (7)

4 Stitched using diplomacy, say (6)

5 Neatly or otherwise elaborately (8)

7 The following transport (5)

8 Joke country folk made about learner (10)

9 Nothing in part I see and hear relating to living organisms (6)

14 One French model, full of pity and dishonest (10)

17 Improper behaviour in December alternatively with hesitation (9)

18 and 2 How contortionists take pains to please (4,4,9)

20 Showy nameless embellishment (6)

22 Disturbed by a few lines in the Old Testament (7)

23 Could be worse ringing about legal document (6)

25 Ape cannot hide this nut (5)

27 Revolting like the tree (4)