September 2006 - 12x12 Barred Grid Cryptic
by Cullen

Across

1Scots hero playing the defence card (7)
6Student copies write-up but makes a bit of a bloomer (5)
10Unusual talent Lara displayed for dance (10)
11Good car to carry a child (7)
13Go off German poet? Easy for another poet! (4)
14Was successful in history oral (6)
15Oft-disputed land has one rolling in the aisles! (7)
16River known in myth and legend (5)
20Been led astray? It's the language! (7)
22Restraints vocalised after roll call (7)
24What can affect muscles? A cold can (5)
25They're stupidly slow - like Lazarus? (7)
28Lives after being killed by double dagger (6)
30Temporarily given opportunity to avoid indulgence? (4)
31Woman returns after riotous party in Italy (7)
32Shelter for taking a breather? (6,4)
33Island where old colonist reversed poles (5)
34One step in refining sugar (7)

Down

1Pay comedians touring European capital (5)
2Doubly sour pickling medium? (6,4)
3Sail after due time and finally make Southampton (6)
4People of regular abstemiousness (5)
5Musical family gathered hanging flowers (7)
6Went off to trap you in a high-

class fiddle (7)
7They may be jellied or else cooked (4)
8More extravagance shown by drug dealer around the end of April (7)
9Ring writer to get fat and emperor when love's lost (7)
12Actual number? Any number is employed in game (4,6)
17The devil's an evil fellow (7)
18Bird's better suited to Cartesian co-ordinates (7)
19Is getting environmental penalties
- last things you'd expect! (7)
21Ode composed in time to be a tribute to the gods (7)
23Once dazzled, bowled over by "Unfinished" slow passage (6)
26Expert on the New Vietnam that hasn't got it! (5)
27Unimaginative opening of short story (5)
29Sweet love talk brings it all back (4)


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