Friday 22 May

Across

9 Perfect 1-wood (5) 10 Communication system is common kind for Spooner (5,4) 11 Wales played by captain’s physical principle (6,3) 12 Hotel entertained by country backing group (5) 13 Sweet Caroline’s opening fight in Madison Square Garden (7) 15 Heather in Shropshire borders close to the heart of Percy Thrower (7) 17 Agree Machiavelli partly reflected The Prince (5) 18/26 1 main partner (7) 20 Fat detective wearing hat (5) 22 Harry Lime drinking tea for 1? (7) 25 Shivering après-skier may finally put new coat on (7) 26 Ashe regularly missed out in Court No.1 (5) 31 Flat 1 has entrance in Shepherd’s Bush? (5)

Down

2 Determined 1 cycling is overtaken by true rogue (8) 3 Down-and-dirty (4) 4 Metal producers manufactured steel frames occasionally (8) 5 Thoroughly investigates tips from The Repair Shop to cover boring item (6) 6 Words in song embracing trouble ending for Crystal Palace (10) 7/27/30/1 Flash Gordon in on the talks with Flash Liquid to produce a novel quote (2,4,3,6,3,3,3,4) 8 Strip from page 1 (4) 13 Allure of 1 million (5) 14 Spanish players delivered part of song (10) 16 Amber perhaps originally yellowish-red (5) 19 Potted game eaten by Bill (8) 21 1 brief period gripping nation (8) 23 Group of hot men in bed (6) 24 Shed Seven essentially leaving the Eastern Mediterranean with nothing (4-2) 28 Pikachu’s sandwich contains dog meat (4) 29 Clairvoyant brought up on drugs (4)