CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Pay for short dance with King Kenny Dalglish? (10) 6 Check what snooker player does in retirement (4) 10 Group botch thefts every now and then (5) 11 One relates to race run badly (9) 12 Shallow character involved in leak (4-4) 13 Place to sit during occupation (5) 15 Straight post (7) 17 Listener partly unravelled a murder (7) 19 Examine pressure getting into cricket? (7) 21 Town with too much (7) 22 Dance that’s hot stuff (5) 24 Not great playing, as planned (2,6) 27 Excessively keen on period encapsulated by Queen (9) 28 Relative’s regularly inside church (5) 29 After short time, demand something to do (4) 30 Boss, cunning, securing promissory note with due diligence (10)

DOWN 1 Set up Bolt for run (4) 2 Kiss tutor working in Borders (9) 3 Don’t declare staff (5) 4 Superlatively extensive and somewhat popular gesture (7) 5 One absconding from English undermining French art head (7) 7 Midlands banker runs to fill temporary accommodation (5) 8 Actors in theatre promoted previous show at first (10) 9 Impressive within, like some churches (8) 14 Shave one’s head but stop too soon? (3,2,5) 16 Woolly matter in retirement home? (4,4) 18 Upset ever wiser critics (9) 20 Orwell’s sort of police? That’s an idea (7) 21 Turned out dry, freshened up outside (7) 23 City sheltered one from the law (5) 25 Token of love – love for drummer (5) 26 Refuse to accept study by unknown (4)