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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 11 May 2006
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Across
1. Stiffening agent finding a way to bow (6)
4. The beast allowed back in a new open prison (8)
9. Follow a series of races to the finish (6)
10. Middle-men a long time since perhaps (8)
12. Swaggered on board ship? (4)
13. Concert - it is held by a Parisienne (5)
14. Send no end before dried up (4)
17. Chart the food used at top level (8,4)
20. Island emblem annoys the inhabitants (7,5)
23. Flat on the seventh floor (4)
24. The trainee always gets prize, we hear (5)
25. Pole - one to be seen in Italy (4)
28. Started working and twisting net round (6,2)
29. Blemish in a place frequented by yachtsmen (6)
30. Keeps back funds (8)
31. Light-headed (6)
Down
1. Mark a town's deficiency (8)
2. Scholar embraced by a teetotal woman in court (2,3,3)
3. Article found in church - a walking stick (4)
5. What some persons choose to wear when retired (12)
6. A bird engaged in building her nest (4)
7. It's the duck-liver for him (6)
8. Bearing a flower in spring (6)
11. In confidence, there's no rude drunk here (5,3,4)
15. Wrangle - but not very much (5)
16. A guiding light (5)
18. People after the same gift (8)
19. Souind made by a snake that's provoked (8)
21. The examiner's upset - terrible start! (6)
22. Bristles, but supports around five hundred (6)
26. Expensive letter-opener (4)
27. Cry about everything (4)