Cryptic Crossword - The Scotsman 16/04/13

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Tuesday’s puzzle...

Across

1 The late lamentable sportsman (7)

5 Surviving partner removes name from light (5)

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11 Identified snail’s pace, for example, as usually second to play (3,4,8)

12 Address friend as gem (4)

13 I fled position where 9 may be found (5)

14 Party thrown by graduate with second degree (4)

17 Tries for compliment if, on returning, she is there (6)

18 Snares used when pets ran amok (7)

20 What to do after you’ve given 9 a bad name with mournful expression? (7)

22 Broken glass is not to be moved on board (6)

24 Quarrel your admission may depend on (4)

25 Able to make Kafka’s hero appear comfortless (5)

26 Feature, perhaps, in hazy covering (4)

29 Drink to ease effects of Rover’s return? (3,4,2,3,3)

30 The last one’s the killer when war returns to the street (5)

31 Fear of heights? Get over it with gravity somehow (7)

Down

2 What the country owes to talent behind a reform (3,8,4)

3 Stay doggo, we hear, with airbed (4)

4 Urbanites compared to swine, possibly (7)

6 Thought the same with each encounter (4)

7 It’s a trial for them to count sheep (3,3,3,3,3)

8 Dust thrown up from foundations (5)

9 Star of 7 to stay down on pass (6)

10 Pig farm inventory put together by designer (7)

15 Coy about notice that’s a bit suspect (5)

16 Sailor, a retired compiler of map collection (5)

19 Burn it and you start to find it is proverbially cold (7)

21 Capone was steeped in blood aplenty (6)

22 Steal a bit (7)

23 Friend’s verbal confession of self-centredness (5)

27 What 9’s charges say to rum cake? (4)

28 Scrap spring festival (4)

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