The Scotsman Crossword and yesterday's answers 16/06/20

ACROSS

1 Officer muddled up names today vacantly _ all guilty parties let off (7,7)

9 Babyhood expressed in imagination (7)

10 Hard tug engineered to create traction (7)

11 A chimney made of crystal (4)

12 Demand 3 (5)

13 Often disinclined to receive nurse (4)

16 Made provision for feline and mad deer (7)

17 Spies’ method of working is a sensitive plant (6)

19 Phone boy not so high on the list (6)

22 Visits person to admit as offspring (5,2)

25 Flag up disembodied voice (4)

26 Will oil go slippery in ice-house? (5)

27 and 31 Not travelling in direction pointed, team didn’t do so well (4-7)

30 Put out a call for worker in historical parade (7)

31 See 27

32 Given no chance to prepare where dive should be (2,2,3,4,3)

DOWN

1 Advice to soldier wearing uniform at disco (8)

2 A fun lot collected but blame’s attached to neither party (2-5)

3 Gross status (4)

4 The guy in the big house is, they say, existing on many levels (7)

5 and 6 Possibly mock investigation during pregnancy (7,4)

7 Wild animal to stray from the path when leader’s changed (7)

8 Work at books in dusty place (5)

14 Animals gain right to become birds (5)

15 Comparative metaphor I dropped makes happy face (5)

18 Fiancee was meant (8)

20 and 28 Life on hold while recovering from birth, covertly preparing to attack (5,2,4)

21 Run up high tor? OK (5,2)

22 and 29 Went too far when phone connection was snarled up (7.4)

23 Make dotty with leading sherry as favourite drink (7)

24 Animal seen on trendy river (5)

28 See 20

29 See 22