CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Remarkable cue (6) 5 Weapon bringing about Becket’s end in play of T. S. Eliot? (8) 10 A socially prominent person, moreover (2,4) 11 Amuse daughter with one’s leaflet (8) 12 How to get pear juice in a meeting arranged for journalists? (5,10) 16 Phone system company installed during elected period (8) 18 Politically extreme? No Conservative spoke (6) 20 Unusual scene involving a meeting with spirit? (6) 21 Instrument that’s blown with lips to make glasses (4-4) 22 Rocket heading for asteroid in what could be scariest flight (6,9) 27 Perturbed, third of class confined to school over it (8) 28 Very famous fraud infiltrating cricket team caught? (6) 29 One called after another select Oriental drink (8) 30 Water heater man heard (6)

DOWN 2 Cover home? Sure can, if worried (9) 3 A white wine that may be seen in Trier (11) 4 Ring up about island flower (5) 6 One apprehended by the force? (5) 7 Following behind king (5) 8 Order to work out (5) 9 Porridge or nothing at breakfast? (7) 13 New York representative with the novel Lolita, perhaps (7) 14 Blunder in fear, losing head (5) 15 Unlisted? Former partner and board member, number unknown? (2-9) 17 Indian on lake producing fish basket (5) 19 Ceasefire in Crimea? It’s fragile (9) 20 Spot inhabited by American bear (7) 23 Turn of phrase used in papers I’m carrying round (5) 24 Collect lot once first of auctions is over (5) 25 Grass snake uncoiled (5) 26 Initially, it covered invitingly naughty gateau? (5)

Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved