THE CROSSWORDS

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Uninspired footman (10)

6 Count in German (4)

10 Mature, or mature to a point (5)

11 With us details can produce weariness (9) 12 Taking someone on and winning (8)

13 Moral principle held by the thick-skinned (5) 15 Refreshed as sleep passes away (7)

17 An inch out perhaps, but maintaining contact (2,5)

19 A girl after a bit of butter for her kneecap (7) 21 Not a straight musician? (7)

22 Perform aerobatics in an advertising display (5) 24 In the main perhaps he’s all at sea (8)

27 Make sure as sure can be (9)

28 Not an all-American name for a girl (5)

29 Girl right at all times (4)

30 Have one nightcap too many? (5,5)

DOWN

1 Leave the car where one can take a stroll (4) 2 One kept - in suspense? (9)

3 Ian’s confused with love for a girl (5)

4 A king with supporters stages a recovery (7)

5 A ship, for example, with first-rate missile (7) 7 Being coarse on the golf course (5)

8 Is it instrumental in warning Paris pedestrians? (6,4)

9 Governed, having been shown the way (8) 14 Main part of a book taken by travellers (3,7) 16 Distressed Royalist living the life of a hermit (8) 18 Taking bullets from an old gun I dismantled (9) 20 Not a sunny greeting? (3,4)

21 Cafe and inn combine somehow to make money (7)

23 Dad’s brother Sam is in the U.S. (5)

25 Exhausted after a day’s shopping? (5)

26 Found on stage (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Dispenser of medicines (10) 6 Brusque (4)

10 Maintain (5)

11 Ad-lib (9)

12 Portray in words (8)

13 Pitch forward suddenly (5) 15 Even-tempered (7) 17 Account for (7)

19 Urban fortress (7)

21 Raining heavily (7) 22 Provoke aversion in (5) 24 Common sense (8)

27 Not guilty judgment (9) 28 Construct (5)

29 Long hard journey (4) 30 Cave-dweller (10)

DOWN

1 International treaty (4) 2 Consequently (2,1,6) 3 Ridicule by imitation (5) 4 Style of cooking (7) 5 Highest in rank (7) 7 Superior (5)

8 Extremely uncertain (5-3-2) 9 Disintegrate (8)

14 Ribes rubrum (10)

16 The butterfly bush (8) 18 Strong dislike (9)

20 Shallow port boat (7) 21 Interval of delay (4,3) 23 Resentment (5) 25 Unmentionable (5)

26 Not in operation (4)