March Crossword - deadline 25 March

Welcome to March's Club Journal Crossword. Every month we give one lucky entrant a £50 prize.

How to enter: Simply print out the pdf, complete the grid and post to:

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD AND PRINT THE CROSSWORD

Club Journal Crossword (ACP) - Link Spaces,
Botanica Ditton Park, Riding
Court Road, Slough, SL3 9LL.

email your answers to sean@alchemymedia.co.uk.

And remember to include your Name, Club Name and the address you would like a cheque sent to should you win. Good luck!

ACROSS

7 Back out from the forefront (3)
8 Treats shop to some heart to heart? (5,2)
9 Incubate the novice in the centre (3)
10 Tall grasses grown from seed in the river (5)
11 Fur trim for a miner in four (7)
12 Where a cab can be driven with clothes to swim in (9)
14 Bad librettos from off the cuff (2-3)
16 Rent from apple trees? (3)
17 Fire remains just like a tree (3)
19 Jump at a bit of busking (3)
20 Jam to put right? (3)
21 Measurement, with a bad end built in (5)
23 Inwards I’m drawn to selection theory, naturally (9)
25 Dotty printing, but it’s not daft! (7)
27 Small department at hospital added to the profundity (5)
29 Dashed inside to get the lady (3)
30 Faculty of ego, in cell division (7)
31 Criticise back to sleep (3)

DOWN

1 Distant affair, if taken away (4)
2 Agreement of Biblical proportions (8)
3 Odes composed for the deer (4)
4 DNA sequence that for me has gone awry (6)
5 A life of excess panache? (4)
6 Torque tool to be announced, right? (1-3)
9 Polite? Very un-military! (5)
11 Morse code for social norms? (5)
12 Local regulation ably crafted by Welsh leader (5)
13 More to be said of a PM (5)
14 Bali biennial giving a reason for absence (5)
15 Music box (sic) not made to be plump! (5)
18 Bet either way with, say, a fund (5)
20 Light-hearted flap about a pint! (8)
22 Sir Francis leading Mr Duck? (5)
24 Aura pier gives off like a narrow blade (6)
25 Beast, a dropout, but nothing finer (4)
26 Beat, with your tongue? (4)
27 What to eat when the tide is out? (4)
28 Optimism with open middle (4)