CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Narrow escape - from a cutthroat? (5,5) 6 Excursion and dance (4)

10 Many relax at the summit (5)

11 Give up on French return (9)

12 Food once considered dandy (8)

13 Kill a doctor and confess (5)

15 We can do with it (7)

17 Tries - to prevent tries? (7)

19 A target set for a race-meeting (7) 21 Possibly I retain indolence (7)

22 Young swimmer in wild revel (5)

24 Teach one to give orders (8)

27 Flying - up and down the touchline? (2,3,4) 28 Arrived with nothing, but got relief work (5) 29 Hardy female (4)

30 Two containers make a musical

instrument (10)

DOWN

1 Put up a bird (4)

2 Working in the theatre? (9)

3 Addition or edition? (5)

4 His conservative report of events (7) 5 Composer goes to court for judgment (7) 7 A source of pleasure or aid, possibly (5) 8 Perhaps a party ends a school occasion (7,3) 9 Problem of pain (8)

14 Accomplished boxers are unhappy if they

have to be (7,3)

16 Political victim of restrictive practice? (8) 18 He turns up, after all (9)

20 Inane is another way of putting this (7) 21 Near understanding? (7)

23 Chooses a new stove (5)

25 A fringe gathering of lacemakers (5) 26 England invader lacks an accepted

standard (4)

DOWN

1 To cure (4)

2 Inducing sleep (9) 3 Force out (5) 4 Encroach (7)

5 Stuffy (7)

7 Beginning (5)

8 Art of good eating (10) 9 Graphite (8)

14 Decline in value (10) 16 Casino game (8) 18 Dilapidation (9) 20 Underwater missile (7) 21 Overdue (7) 23 Impudence (5) 25 Crookedly (5) 26 Network (4)