October 2005 - 12x12 Barred Grid Cryptic Crossword
by Cullen

Across

1French boy losing his head - time for something he's got? (7)
6Sorrowful expression elicited by an absence (5)
10Bluffing at the tailor's (6,2,2)
11Anarchic movement puts barrier round platform (7)
13Go off German poet? That's easy for another poet! (4)
14Drains designed to reach the lowest depths (6)
15Primarily regions exhibiting flora usually growing in antiquity (7)
16Eastern garments revealed by titled person when retiring (5)
20Western alliance surrounding the border - never the more needed (7)
22Real uplift followed by set-back for Hamlet's adversary (7)
24Man having this wine first from France (5)
25Take up mind reading at start of one's employment (7)
28Go into alliance, initially showing guts (6)
30Palm wine brought back in a cask (4)
31Be careful to provide recommendation of film (5,2)
32Batting No. 11 with foot trouble, but managing to survive (7,3)
33Prepared to make a good impression? (5)
34Saint's dreadful desperation - no soda!

Down

1Tree-god executed (5)
2House mistress to talk on the Lily Maid of Astolat (10)
3Pharaoh's snake made planet change direction (6)
4Taking a view of a valley in Germany (5)
5Nun mostly keeps in particular

chapel (7)
6Indian city street English favoured long ago (7)
7What did Munchausen do for German song? (4)
8Weary at first but ready to appear in public (7)
9Old city is aware of distress signal West sent out (7)
12Gold-seeking character has songs in opera about millions, mostly quiet (10)
17A student I love turning out to be the pits (7)
18A mastic tree? Let's ink in the answer! (7)
19Standing parliaments entertaining alternative drug (7)
21Sort of sausage still being produced (7)
23Two rogues share the same opinion (6)
26Tube inventor makes nothing in Chatham (5)
27In the course of treatment Alice read this instruction (3,2)
29Albert Entwistle - Interior Designer (4)


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