CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Get below platform (10)

6 Lose one’s cool photograph (4) 9 People in Berlin failing to

grasp an infection source? (5) 10 Working age limited

by choice (9)

12 Weep, having broken

last glass (7)

13 Goes by the book for bye-byes,

dropping off regularly (5) 15 Neglected old glove with

end cut off by daughter (7) 17 Work for Labour,

for example? (7)

19 Fellow with good-hearted

people (7)

21 Hearing discordant noise,

about couple of seconds (7) 22 Writer Muriel King resting

against box lightly (5) 24 Shriek going to church, avoiding a traipse in mud, by the sound of it (7)

27 I’m left with insect of value (9) 28 Roth novel with new spine (5) 29 Demand work on radio (4) 30 Complimentary alcohol

for maverick (4,6)

DOWN

1 Press rush to dismiss

Spain’s leader (4) 2 Management’s right,

perhaps (9)

3 Out of practice in game,

feisty after first half (5) 4 Ran last in heat and

fell to pieces? (7) 5 Almost pointless?

These shouldn’t be (7) 7 Sound from one getting

grabbed by beak (5) 8 Chaps in his punt adrift, needing correction (10) 11 Numbers adult stuck on horses (7)

14 Hire male to support company on pilgrimage (10) 16 Less intelligent trick he played (7) 18 Sprawling in robe, hug someone close? (9) 20 Hopelessness of French couple following son (7) 21 Destroy small mollusc (7) 23 Large politician surrounded by drink (5) 25 Grant at university came to an end (3,2) 26 Insect bite — upsetting (4)