THE BS CROSSWORD #3283

ACROSS:

8 Loss of a pound from drink at

a party for the emperor (6) 9 Suitable as a bachelor ? (8) 10 An element of quartz in

crystal (4)

11 Confused, since I'm not all

knowing (10)

12 Graduate joining the Sappers

with nothing on (4) 13 Account of half roll, half back jerks, makes impressive gymnastic display (10)

17 Had Jerusalem initially in mind as destination for pilgrimage (4)

18 An artist may question one about a Middle Eastern man ? (5)

19 A pattern belonging to

Dorothy (4)

21 University head's healed

that's easily seen! (10) 23 One's very clever not to start

in the fall (4)

24 That's bound to mean that

summer has arrived (6,4) 28 Letters of credit (4)

29 You're denying that there's

tan in egg? (8)

30 Went on and on about

scrambled egg and chips (6)

DOWN:

1 High water in the Andes (8) 2 It's not good for a person's image, showing chopper on duty (7,3)

3 Obsessive demand for attention about poet's island that Scot's captured? (10) 4 Change the diet afresh,

perhaps (4)

5 Some judges have quite a few

to drink, first to last (4) 6 Rugby country where three characters get points in one case (4)

7 Returning nothing I dropped into County Council hospital (6)

14 Grow, taking head of iceberg

to show again (5)

15 Not able to look at another

drink ? (5-5)

16 Place in Surrey among the unions for Henrys vii and viii, for instance (5,5)

20 Payments subject to approval

(8)

22 Fancied to win but dropped

off (6) 25 Said differently when

belonging to the girl ? (4) 26 Lines going different ways - it

could be electrifying (4)

27 Fort gives a girl energy (4)