ACROSS
1 Suitability to come into contact with Head (8)
5 Plant found in low marshy land before Len retired (6)
9 Begin to attack (3,5)
10 Rod to catch Hair' (6)
12 Golfer left with a strong feeling of displeasure (6)
13 Regard oneself as permitted to touch without payment (4,4)
15 Risk escape by river (7)
16 You and I accepting silver as payment for services (4)
20 Some overpriced American cheese (4)
21 Somewhere near the edge and feeling worried (4,3)
25 Bound in gratitude and finished hugging a soldier (8)
26 Understand contract (4,2)
28 Hesitation after exercises by the Spanish policeman (6)
29 Violinist's father takes horse back home to Italy (8)
30 Typical girl student (6)
31 Poet's object of affection takes port before one (8)

DOWN
1 Spice girl finally has one after mother goes to South Africa (6)
2 Compass discovered in old portable shelter (6)
3 Workers support illustrious peers (8)
4 Very good UK marketplace (4)
6 Give authority to Edward I and forbid uprising by the French (6)
7 Grandmother has money for Indian food (3,5)
8 Left rubbish lying about untidily in old vehicle near the centre of Shoreditch (8)
11 Condemned 500 on the 2nd of December then wept (7)
14 Occasionally its meat is cooked (2,5)
17 Fictional character to dwindle away to nothing before a Greek god (5,3)
18 Ed learns design from an English artist (8)
19 Take the risk of incorporating European rule in this US state (8)
22 It sometimes needs cheese for the best results (6)
23 Queen's turbulent reign over Austria (6)
24 Very excited when performing with sack (2,4)
27 Catholic academician returned books by a Stoic philosopher (4)

2:16pm Thursday 3rd April 2008

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