Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 20/04/2012

Across

1 After period at zero, make relentless progress (4,2,7)

10 Broadcast in favour of metric weight? (9)

11 Point made in medical journal that’s abridged (5)

12 Air tent out to be more smart (7)

13 Basic information? (7)

14 I’m in with troops for getting lifts (6)

16 Hang about after rendezvous, we hear, having something to eat (4,4)

18 Hide from moose, perhaps (8)

20 One heard to damn the blinking pointer (6)

23 Arguments that ensue when second class is out of flannels (7)

24 Money, the shortage of which had wide coverage (7)

26 Food transported to a street (5)

27 Too much depiction of detail in the red (9)

28 One neither 16 nor 26 to get bubble and squeak, for example (9,4)

Down

2 Turn odd ones out to fish (5)

3 Sibling’s seen in a cheeky way to carry on (7)

4 Get fed up with doctor interrupting in distinctive tone (6)

5 Covers up about falsehoods (8)

6 Clot changed sides with Alf (7)

7 Pronouns distributed about nothing, letting nothing through (3-6)

8 Pot been heated? Stir to start off discussion (4,3,6)

9 Bicycle of very little value in old money (5,8)

15 Make drunk play with a beer in it (9)

17 A Paris do metamophosed into forced exile (8)

19 Suspect rectory of harbouring ghost (7)

21 When being at university finished, stood on head (7)

22 Muscles feel bad, it’s reported, due to mountain manoeuvre (6)

25 Pulls and digs up grass (5)

Thursday’s solution:

Across: 1 Bridgehead, 6 Scam, 10 Torment, 11 Curious, 12 Cautious, 13 Genre, 15 Ensign, 17 Pondered, 19 Reawaken, 21 Astern, 24 Staid, 25 Retrench, 28 Narrate, 29 Impasse, 30 Same, 31 Advertised.

Down: 1 Bath, 2 Inroads, 3 Greet, 4 Hotpot, 5 Ancestor, 7 Crooner, 8 Misleading, 9 Brigades, 14 Represents, 16 Guardian, 18 Befriend, 20 Anagram, 22 Excuses, 23 Strife, 26 Ex-pat, 27 Tend.