SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Yesterday’s solutions: Across:

ACROSS

3 Getting out of position (10)

8 Not as bad as being a gambler (6) 9 Promise made to a hothead (4)

10 Get on the wagon, John (10)

11 Breakfast is prompt (3)

13 I walk outside, satisfied (4)

14 The arrogance made the two unions have a change of heart (7)

15 He’s anything but ignorant, though green (4)

17 What you said to keep the agitator quiet for a bit? (5)

20 Mad about cricket? (5)

22 Always at a quarter to five returns (4) 24 Let you speak audibly (7)

25 What makes one think you care (4) 27 Down for breakfast, perhaps (3) 28 “Figure” is the word hunted out (3,7) 29 Thought the L was missing in “faultless” (4)

30 Started again, perhaps, with a clean sheet? (6)

31 Having a superior brain? (4-6)

DOWN

1 Get as far as going around for a wigging (8)

2 Pickled olives often are (6)

3 What gave you an irresistible urge to go over to the chest? (7)

4 Will no longer go back, one notices (5) 5 Providing he’s turned in (4)

6 Then I distributed around about a quarter, as is natural (8)

7 How one suspiciously tasted the spicy cake? (8)

12 Unutterably stupid? (4)

14 Where we’ve got to in the reckoning (4) 16 Afraid it will take a day (4)

17 On which flying fish sleep? (3-5)

18 Telling one the story when taken back into the circle (8)

19 The figure you have reduced (4)

21 Again was inclined to take it when one made the offer (8)

23 Said one wouldn’t put the lights out again (7)

25 Left in a dream, to stew the fruit (6) 26 Note the weight (5)

28 Drive back nine at a time (4)

1 Pass up. 5 Seldom. 8 Roast. 9 Navajo. 10 Report. 11 Prose. 14 Assessor. 16 Morass. 18 Master carpenter. 20 Second. 22 Detailed. 25 Woden. 27 Retain. 28 Tirade. 29 Extol. 30 Sanded. 31 Yields.

Down: 1 Panama. 2 Save. 3 Proposer. 4 Labour candidate. 5 Stream. 6 Drop. 7 Matins. 12 Mention. 13 Frantic. 15 Share. 17 Suede. 19 Patently. 20 Sports. 21 Dawned. 23 Divers. 24 Sten. 26 Hail.