Across
Anger smouldering in RC service? | INCENSE |
Books returned in totally tropical paradise | ATOLL |
Lord Erskine’s directive | ORDER |
Close to tears, top fashion designer upset | SHATTER |
Sack lay in hearth | FIREPLACE |
Some captions appropriate | APT |
Ladies perhaps in Tel Aviv | LAV |
Finish draught for decisive ending | DEATHBLOW |
BBC’s relatives | AUNTIES |
Old Italian story church banned | ROMAN |
Enter office uninvited? | USURP |
One cuts line in various places | SCALPEL |
Madden | INCENSE |
Coral reef | ATOLL |
Command | ORDER |
Break suddenly | SHATTER |
Chimney opening | FIREPLACE |
Fitting | APT |
Loo | LAV |
Coup de grace | DEATHBLOW |
Parents’ siblings | AUNTIES |
Director Polanski | ROMAN |
Take over | USURP |
Surgical knife | SCALPEL |
Down
Hint: posh bloke invests one penny | TIPOFF |
Corrosive stuff from ace detectives | ACID |
Brave one died after Pinter plays | INTREPID |
Hostess in village is harridan | GEISHA |
Figures to an extent raised | DATA |
Soccer boot torn in tumble | FOOTBALL |
Wine cartel punished | CLARET |
Hungry creature that flies round us | RAVENOUS |
Light region in shade there allowed | ETHEREAL |
Football Association? | LEAGUE |
Donkey is on time to help | ASSIST |
Engineer’s wide corner | WANGLE |
Devils beheading feeble people | IMPS |
Sulk where poem rewritten | MOPE |
Warning | TIPOFF |
Battery fluid | ACID |
Fearless | INTREPID |
Japanese companion | GEISHA |
Statistics | DATA |
The beautiful game | FOOTBALL |
Dark purplish colour | CLARET |
Famished | RAVENOUS |
Insubstantial | ETHEREAL |
Alliance | LEAGUE |
Aid | ASSIST |
Obtain by persuasion | WANGLE |
Small demons | IMPS |
Brood | MOPE |