CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Meal commercial traveller’s obtained beside a street (6) 6 Successive notes coming from French artist (4) 8 Revolutionary, a tedious person from what we hear (5) 9 Sack group of soldiers — that lot can go to blazes! (4,7) 10 Time to get ready-to-eat food (5) 11 Church always wanting newspaper article? I’ll drum up support (11) 16 Wild cat, coolest possibly when avoiding sun (6) 17 Operators getting on in leaps and bounds (8) 19 Good person came down, not at all relaxed (8) 20 See humour shown by this gathering of emotionally connected folk (4-2) 22 A president’s out of order — they must take steps (11) 25 Watery terrain — hard to find on another planet (5) 27 A blur, a sleep, awfully nice (11) 28 Number with purpose getting a great deal (2,3) 29 Left-winger to move faster than 22? (4) 30 Grow something that can count as one of the daily five? (6)

DOWN

1 Row in resort, the last thing resort needs (4) 2 Brought up in dirtier dens, going off the rails (11) 3 Judge and City politicians meeting where food is served (11) 4 What one expects to observe in member of religious group (6) 5 Distinguished cricketer at university recovers from bender (6,2) 6 Follow academic master as a matter of belief (5) 7 Journey taking in good mountain feature (5) 12 Fantastic sermon, gents being spellbound? (11) 13 Camels in divine house, one of twelve outside capital (11) 14 Irish turning up to celebrate historical event in Dublin (6) 15 Travel with friends, finally have a little drink and chat (6) 18 Wicked predator shows little sign of sorrow (8) 21 Cane giving sound of hard blow — we don’t like that! (6) 23 Mathematician establishing new rule about transcendental number (5) 24 Precise demand (5) 26 Hurry — daughter must be collected, put out of sight (4)