SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 How one cleansed one’s wounds when badly beaten (6)

4 Notice outside of spanner has been cut (8) 10 Argued about being retired with a boy (7) 11 Judges ill-feeling of politician in America (7) 12 Before I entered the country (4)

13 Sleights of hand (4,6) 16 It’s no longer wrong to get money by intimidation (6) 17 Decrees Dorian’s to pack up (7)

20 Supporting female principle being held by a male (7)

21 Consulted about credit cover (6)

24 A man’s about to ban leading touring side of Rugby players (10) 25 Invention of Crompton, a stubborn person (4)

27 A shocking fish’s weapon (7)

29 Noble lawyers appearing on film (7) 30 Said journalist, having turned poet, died (8) 31 Hang on to a leading provincial writer figure (6)

DOWN

1 Having run over the German fellow, a boy (8) 2 Liza Minnelli? (7,4) 3 Trading group’s twist of fate (4)

5 Cry out about being ruled by rogues (8) 6 Being Ernest’s weight (10)

7 Paper over the fish (3) 8 Leave off - some Parisian is in the way (6) 9 Notions about a dangerous time of the month for Caesar (5) 14 Outcome of a series in support of the Tory brief (11)

15 Photographic device producing transparencies (1-3,6) 18 I got Anne to play the daughter of Oedipus (8) 19 Corrupted fashionable court in grip of iron man (8)

22 The boy, to a degree, subsided (6)

23 People working at last (5)

26 Being a Rugby player, dad’s out of the side (4) 28 Fabulous bird from Morocco (3)