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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 25 Sep 2008
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Across
1. An act that brings discredit to the person doing it (6)
4. A strange way of flirting - not worth considering (8)
9. Fuss, mainly over charged particle melting (6)
10. Temporary arrangement erected round a building for workers' convenience (8)
12. Check if dog starts barking (4)
13. Roman mansion (5)
14. 'Georgy ____', 1966 film starring James Mason and Lynn Redgrave (4)
17. If it burps, I clip it in the citizen's best interests (6,6)
20. Lesotho 'burrs' become fellow Black men (4,8)
23. Drug addict's ruse goes astray (4)
24. About to remain indefinitely without a hairdo (5)
25. Hired vehicle with a 'levy' on top (4)
28. A landlocked republic, separated from the Czech Republic in 1993 (8)
29. Possibly retain part of an eye (6)
30. Total energy we wasted in drying cloth (8)
31. Stern is almost completely cut off (6)
Down
1. A computer can display it on a screen (4,4)
2. Register formally as a participant (8)
3. Boast of Conservative rank (4)
5. Defiant about clatter in car (12)
6. Spend time achieving nothing (4)
7. Following a conventional type of image (6)
8. A persistently annoying person (6)
11. Bizarrely, in legend, I see the beginnings of alternative method of transport (6,6)
15. Sod removed by a wood (5)
16. Reverence (5)
18. Tranquilizing half-dose given to case in school (8)
19. Guess what the cost might be (8)
21. Apple colour (6)
22. Fare badly without a party hat (6)
26. Starter's orders heard with pudding (4)
27. Sort of wolves that are now no longer on the island (4)