CRYPtIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Queen of the fairies turned in vain at Italy (7) 5 Not very clear total for Chinese snacks (3,3) 10 A department’s expert (5) 11 I bet Hazel misspelled queen’s name (9) 12 Cloths that wrap around small sculptures (7) 13 Laconic actor’s creative culinary hodgepodge? (7) 14 Queen’s rook taken by might (4) 15 When ill, I’m a mad Dutch queen (10) 18 “African Queen” is a Picasso, i.e., abstract (10) 21 Queen of Carthage accomplished nothing (4) 24 Kiss crown in William Inge play (3,4) 26 Arrest dominion’s first member of the Greens? (7) 27 Entire fit wrong for queen (9) 28 Cover left in surrender (5) 29 Atari’s adapted headgear for queens (6) 30 English director of Doctor Zhivago or Queen of England (7)

DOWN

1 Foremost of throwers pay to restore window (7) 2 Reference work the guy’s put into overhead sign (9) 3 Simple, housing true local inhabitant (6) 4 Kosygin, like sea, tossed about (7) 6 A ringer sitting in is a queen (8) 7 Woman born with a queen’s land (5) 8 Sage chapeau worn by mother (7) 9 Tacky stuff set for assembly before school (6) 16 Fake shortcoming after losing opener (9) 17 Queen through eating 100 doughnuts (8) 18 I can’t be changing government committee (7) 19 Apple account ID preceded by dot (6) 20 Pitch popular country singer Patsy (7) 22 Senior lord set adrift (7) 23 Snobbish group’s pointer about intelligence (6) 25 Piece of furniture accommodating one queen of Spain (5)