CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hair arrangement reworked into play (8)

5 Try a football supporter’s beard (6)

10 Overheard helpful hint for an actor’s braid (5)

11 Display a severe hairdo (9) 12 Obvious incident involving one skinhead, ultimately (7) 13 Hair highlights trimmed at the front (7)

14 Hair bleach liquid expired around the first of October (8) 16 Saturday, undergo hair-removal treatment (5)

19 Add a patch of green to auburn, about like this (5) 21 Growth on the lip has to be sore (8)

24 Grown initially in beard’s place, showing coil of hair (7) 26 Obstruct Serb changing hair cutters (7)

27 Passes about literature for hair problem (5,4)

28 Cut very thin, to the ear (5) 29 Petty officer concocted hair ointment (6)

Last Weekend’s Puzzle Solved 30 Hairdressers pen catalogues (8)

DOWN

1 Irritated, looked furtively for auditors (6)

2 In dens, see terrible poverty (9) 3 Those people are overly audible, as far as that place (7) 4 Putin manipulated contributions (5)

6 Riding a German’s equines (7) 7 Pawns all but the first of backless chairs (5)

8 In eagerness, ushers using only the odd exits (8) 9 Silences single moms (8) 15 Approaching tin mine, scrambled around mine’s opening (8) 17 Go-getters share vice, unfortunately (9)

18 Trophy, including antlers, gets fractured (6,2) 20 Indicated no time in legal document (7)

22 Mister Love introduced to Internet service (7)

23 Texas team arranges a retrospective (6)

25 Religion is flight? (5) 26 Defeat, absorbing Eastern attack (5)