Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 17/09/2013
Across
1 Secret exit in port road camouflaged (8)
5 Curse due to cruel captain on last boat (6)
9 King to take sleep on old mattress with travelling bag (8)
10 Exposes alien from the beginning (6)
12 I’m leaving where I live to be easily managed (6)
13 Animal called husky (5)
16 Forbidding inclusion among fat smells (6)
17 Painter who was a heavenly being in charge of love (8)
20 “Spice” is a word reported by Ernie’s partner (8)
21 Exercise equipment that’s not long getting one slim indoors (6)
23 Dressed, then a T taken off, now weary (5)
25 Danger signals cause the French to bear weapons (6)
28 African country reached along a tortuous route (6)
29 Have doubts about damage caused to iron in damp? (8)
30 Four score years and ten wasted in Tyne (6)
31 Trader presenting foreign sea-song (8)
Down
1 and 2 Remove fish supper, say (4,4)
3 Lecture on how to do cruises at sea (9)
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Hide Ad4 Flower alternative to get told off in old-fashioned way (6)
6 See expression of disgust at Irish lake (5)
7 and 8 Give up a life of crime towards the end and talk turkey (2,8,2,3,5)
11 Intends to find wherewithal (5)
14 and 15 Animation in fitness manual, perhaps, when you’re cross-dressing (3,2,5,4,6)
18 Endlessly eating ice is sick and puzzling (9)
19 Donated hairpiece to a northern English town (5)
22 I’m near going off with sailor (6)
24 Learner gets skilled environment for making pottery (5)
26 Stun Admiral with appearance of fish (4)
27 Boy’s taken off hat — let it stay there (4)
Yesterday’s solution
Across: 1 Ballpoint pen, 8 Rat race, 9 Cartoon, 11 Salt, 12 Occupation, 14 Design, 15 Verboten, 17 Numerate, 19 Preston, 22 Incentives, 23 Taxi, 25 Leering, 26 Eyesore, 27 Celebrations.
Down: 1 Battles, 2 Load, 3 Preach, 4 Included, 5 Threadbare, 6 Egotist, 7 Presidential, 10 Non-unionised, 13 Aggrandise, 16 Stringer, 18 Machete, 20 Shadows, 21 Detest, 24 Veto.