THE BS CROSSWORD

# 3062

ACROSS

9 What unnecessarily rude person may do to top another? (4,4,4,3) 10 Looking inside with a roentgen (1-6) 12 Italian film director tripped over on an island near Norfolk Island (7) 13 Emmental, ham and a drop of rioja in hamper (9) 14 A question of location (5) 15 Rarely taken walks (7) 18 As military detachments, they're of no importance ! (7) 21 Flat-topped ridge for Captain Fluff (5) 23 Didn't get fair in reed tangle? (9) 25 Role almost totally absorbing new star of the stage (7) 26 Poles,missing shoot back without a pause (7) 29 Knob's resilience is otherwise explaining how goldness becomes silveriness (7,2,6)

DOWN

1 In the same place, formerly, as the mountain goat (4) 2 Battalion hides what's cooking ? (4) 3 Do not include a bird who's superior (8) 4 Colourful stick of eucalyptus (3-3) 5 Seemed ill at easy and got thoroughly confused (8) 6 Female given sanction to be idle (6) 7 Pixie and col devastated this cricket team of cops (6,2) 8 They lead in the forces if ordered (8) 11 Angry about being longlimbed and slender (5) 15 It's in a car - TSER, ... (8) 16 Samuel, founder of a shipping line (8) 17 Made leisurely progress and kept turning past the street (8) 19 Will they teach one not to go barefoot? (8) 20 It is not true, pair are said to come to a standstill (3,2) 22 Fazed, it's said, by emblem of kingship (6) 24 Get this in, in the swimmer to make it last (6) 27 A ditty bag offered up to Polynesian god (4) 28 A little embarrassed, buttonhole (4)