1 Get over cantankerous? (5)
6 I'm a long time making a picture (5)
9 Being not in gear, perhaps, is an offence! (7)
10 Grace goes to a party with a lot of sailors! (5)
11 Encouraged to be terribly rude about
Gateshead (5)
12 Plants disturbed in a gale (5)
13 In London, say, you need money (7)
15 Dad's part in a soap opera (3)
17 Lake in Eire? (4)
18 It's where the boats are, woman! (6)
19 He makes a change from Jason (5)
20 Sterling advanced by a fellow in the city (6)
22 Did the ancient Romans swear by him? (4)
24 Tasty? No thanks! (3)
25 Reconnoitred by a venturer? (7)
26 It's of consuming interest after breakfast (5)
27 A clan wandering by waterway (5)
28 She's said to give Phil a happy ending! (5)
29 Disease causing wild alarm, I note (7)
30 One looking after a broken-down racer? (5)
31 Good omen, possibly, for a guardian of
wealth (5)
1 Stow (5)
6 Madagascan pri
mate (5)
9 Built (7)
10 Box (5)
11 View (5)
12 Salute (5)
13 With implica
tion (7)
15 Not at home (3)
17 Religious
image (4)
18 Departs (6)
19 Butler (5)
20 Iterate (6)
22 Insult (4)
24 Donkey (3)
25 Attaches (7)
26 Written slander (5)
27 Shade of brown (5)
28 Note (5)
29 Flavouring (7)
30 Clever (5)
31 At no time (5)
DOWN
DOWN
2 Revolutionary vehicle at the races (6)
3 An outing of a kind, that is (6)
4 Poles going round the youth centre in day
light (3)
5 The usual procedure for making holes (5)
6 Creatures taking a big part building a sauna (7)
7 It's only water (4)
8 Happens to be continuous (4,2)
12 He'd have needed a weekend to make an
anorak! (5)
13 Nick's accommodation for groups (5)
14 As worn in a pub in extremes of poverty? (5)
15 A number shoot out in turn (5)
16 Prepared the way for parking on the street,
for many (5)
18 Game that may lead to a flare-up (5)
19 Good-humoured as a strapping Scot? (7)
21 Commonwealth capitalists' centre (6)
22 Boy or girl with no love lost (6)
23 It's fine for bookbinding, etc. (6)
25 Fight that breaks up the dice game (5)
26 Can such a duck make a meal? (4)
28 If rising with a light heart, you can eat it (3)
2 Road surface (6)
3 Keep (6)
4 Before (3)
5 Frightening (5)
6 Young hare (7)
7 Revise (4)
8 False (6)
12 Act smugly (5)
13 Jewelled head
dress (5)
14 Chicken houses (5)
15 Seed (5)
16 Russian rulers (5)
18 Lawful (5)
19 Brave (7)
21 Revere (6)
22 Pace (6)
23 Immature (6)
25 Banquet (5)
26 Untruthful per
son (4)
28 Males (3)
SOLUTIONS TO CROSSWORD 7821
CRYPTIC
EASY
ACROSS: 4, Sa-gel-y 7, Mi-sprint 8, Apiary 10, Sh-U-sh 13, B-L-ob 14, See-p 15, Ha-L-s 16, Fed 17, Oban 19, Ti-er 21, Field-fare 23, Cole 24, Bali 26, Dog 27, (dog) Trot 29, Slap 32, F-lax 33, China 34, Asleep 35, In a tr-ice 36, Intend
