1 Supporters very useful to actors (5)
6 Cries: “Shoot at random!” (5)
9 Figures to go into town for a book (7)
10 Certificates of some description (5)
11 Taking a rest from being truthful (5)
12 Floral component in the form of a lacy cross (5)
13 Decoration of stone, possibly (7)
15 It doesn’t take long to get dry (3)
17 Desire it for a companion (4)
18 In World War II, a victor in a very thorough way! (6)
19 A boaster’s bloomer (5)
20 Join up with either 8 or 22 Down (6)
22 Members of an eleven (4)
24 Paternal army man (3)
25 Plants trees for a chap (7)
26 One can hardly make light of his villainy (5)
27 To fix something, I have to be in the right (5)
28 Noted duet arrangement, as from Chopin (5)
29 Imaginably apt to go up? How funny! (7)
30 Wine swilled by an unarmed comedian (5)
31 Though keen or cutting, it may be fine by the week-end (5)
1 Muscular pain (5)
6 Hit (5)
9 Previously(7)
10 Exhausted (5)
11 Dead language (5)
12 Danger (5)
13 Saunters (7)
15 Domestic fowl (3)
17 Rip (4)
18 Suitcase (6)
19 Black bird (5)
20 Expressed a view (6)
22 Dry (4)
24 Notebook (3)
25 Ship (7)
26 Tracks (5)
27 Biscuit (5)
28 Scope (5)
29 Take for granted (7)
30 Flower (5)
31 Snoops (5)
DOWN
DOWN
2 Something hard for a space traveller to shoot up (6)
3 On which to stand statuesquely, stonily staring (6)
4 Little man of the month? (3)
5 Where there’s a point to gain, possibly (5)
6 Salvation Army crusade? (4, 3)
7 Stone mostly derived from chalcedony (4)
8 Being bright, can upset little Leslie (6)
12 Roll down to the sea (5)
13 Punished a good number (5)
14 Reprove for having sold out the Conservative leader (5)
15 Deadly sins are so numerous! (5)
16 Categories as a study group (5)
18 One of the pair we left incompletely finished (5)
19 Religious type, but he’d be acid if his self-starter went (7)
21 A name I have for being natural (6)
22 Attend to out-of-order inlets (6)
23 Golfed sportively with Bob (6)
25 Use of a veil? (5)
26 A champion may mean nothing to her (4)
28 Animal chewing some leeks (3)
2 Fame (6)
3 Adviser (6)
4 Affectionate tap (3)
5 Insects (5)
6 Aquatic bird (7)
7 Russian river (4)
8 Peals (6)
12 Implore (5)
13 Bend (5)
14 Quick (5)
15 Bees’ homes (5)
16 At no time (5)
18 Swerves (5)
19 Wed again (7)
21 Country (6)
22 Cook gently (6)
23 Edit (6)
25 Conflict (5)
26 Agents, informally (4)
28 Unit of current (3)
SOLUTIONS TO CROSSWORD 7526
CRYPTIC
EASY
ACROSS: 4, Bullet 7, Pin t-able 8, GI-fted 10, A-miss 13, Mint 14, Role 15, Fans 16, Rep 17, Pain 19, Ivor 21, Disbanded 23, Boat 24, Goes 26, Set 27, Eve-R 29, Too-l 32, Fred 33, Largo 34, Moment 35, Calf love 36, Wealth
