CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Minutes wasted mean a gent gets running (10) 6 Is infuriated to lose leader for a long time (4) 9 Cow’s bottom? (5) 10 Identify corgi seen barking (9) 12 Dad’s wise to provide safe conduct (7) 13 Room’s heat cut by 50% – it turned cold (5) 15 Resisted work and assumed an attitude (7) 17 Twitch returned in actual concert (7) 19 Hide debts? That’s mad (7) 21 A designer’s initial put on clothing label (7) 22 Regularly adore a mother’s excitement (5) 24 26 to get old piece of

information (7) 27 Huge robin up in the air, one

close to another (9) 28 Tick seen on old south-east

American deer (5) 29 Watched some characters returning in Brookside yesterday (4) 30 Large dress fantastic in any event (10) DOWN 1 Spy a mark on the skin (4) 2 Novel’s mediocre writing on the Queen? It could be within solver’s grasp (9) 3 American soldier’s circling both directions to get young ladies (5) 4 Mythical creature I rammed at sea? (7) 5 Enthusiast almost certain that power could come from Hinkley Point? (7) 7 Flash from top of golden material (5) 8 Mum’s budgerigars, finally flying, cheep not so much (10) 11 Looked good with weapon on back of steed (7) 14 Trust prisoner to dispose of stolen goods without identification (10) 16 Swallow and food ends up here? (7) 18 So article about king is in enemy’s grasp? (9) 20 This person’s unknown amount of money collected, we hear (7) 21 Albert leaves one country for another (7) 23 One very captivated by alcohol – bubbly? (5) 25 Directed the writer inside to help (5) 26 Where the regulars eat hash? (4)