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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By Pete Mace
Date: 24 Dec 2008
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Across
1. Tennis player under the roof (6)
4. Cavers in the year of our Lord found bodies (8)
9. Irritates beheaded coven members (6)
10. Sign for the water carrier (8)
12. Cut down moor (4)
13. Sounds like a faulty herb (5)
14. Group of Zulu warriors from first persons surrounding MP (4)
17. Helpful ride for the penthouse dweller (4,2,3,3)
20. Near SW unable to respond (12)
23. Bizarre leek on the boat (4)
24. Sign of distress spread outwards (5)
25. Concentrated attentions of chief investigator initially (4)
28. He strove in dire circumstances to make a profit (8)
29. Our Sovereign in Spanish bed gets optical device (6)
30. Plant man worried unduly re danger (8)
31. Real SS produce intense lights (6)
Down
1. Water dropping, mainly all in RAF (8)
2. Stand before elevator receiving cosmetic surgery (8)
3. Eleven missing the Spanish regular (4)
5. Action taken by the unemployed now employed (8,4)
6. A car ascending to spirit (4)
7. Something puzzling in game (6)
8. Little sister with family spies finch (6)
11. Escaped racehorse from a 1954 U.K. TV series by Bob Monkhouse (4,3,5)
15. XIV LBS plum centre (5)
16. Attempt to woo sovereign's residence (5)
18. Bee's tool out of date (8)
19. Tenths or points coming from mid scale (8)
21. Is king going downhill? (6)
22. Hard working rodent (6)
26. Sea spirit from Tolkien found in France (4)
27. Special occasion to which a prisoner may rise (4)