THE CROSSWORDS
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Exciting experiences coming - sure to make trouble (10)
6 The picture palace features it (4)
10 Yet it provides academic standing (5) 11 Loving incitement to crime is wrong (9) 12 Without vigour of late? (8)
13 Father has to avail himself of a temporary rest (5) 15 Persist in the conversion of clergymen (7) 17 Birds I hide in a ship (7)
19 The personification of cunning (7)
21 Brave suitor (7)
22 Courses for non-drivers? (5)
24 A downhill slide (8)
27 Anger is no use for clear mental activity (9) 28 Ancient city prohibition applies to all cities (5) 29 It’s Ena’s turn to be reasonable (4)
30 Eternal state of one having only high notes? (10)
DOWN
1 Chief part of the foot (4)
2 Six bringing skill to practicality (9)
3 Patient caretaker (5)
4 An appeal for economy is seemingly no good (7) 5 Extremely self-conscious persons (7)
7 French soldier turning up well content at heart (5) 8 Remunerate ace postmen perhaps (10)
9 Sale loss paid out (8)
14 Uncast replacements? (5,5)
16 Picture that may take a goalkeeper by surprise (8) 18 Even the most generous would be deaf to such an appeal (9)
20 Trouble with fog in the vessel obtaining sharks (7) 21 Continuous railing? (5,2)
23 School transport (5)
25 Cause commotion - what impertinence! (5) 26 Where lies our responsibility (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Antipathy (10) 6 Gaming counter (4) 10 Knock to the ground (5) 11 Strengthen (9) 12 Rejoinder (8) 13 Fashion (5)
15 Elope (3,4)
17 Drivel (7)
19 A kind (7)
21 Found on the high seas (7) 22 Fix immovably (5) 24 Lineage (8)
27 Making progress (2,3,4) 28 To express (5)
29 Be moodily silent (4) 30 Fatal epidemic disease (10)
DOWN
1 Widespread (4)
2 Utter formally (9)
3 Eat greedily (5) 4 Previously (7)
5 Open-air team game (7) 7 Robust (5)
8 Priority (10)
9 Behind the scenes (8) 14 Rank-and-file members (5,5) 16 American painter and etcher (8) 18 Yellow-flowered weed (9) 20 Be inclined to thin (7) 21 Something left over (7)
23 Full of life (5) 25 Auctioneer’s hammer (5) 26 To honour lavishly (4)