the crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Cheese of unusual hue is bland (6,4) 6 Part of the White Man’s Burden in detail (4)

10 It sounds like the height of resentment (5) 11 Surliness I shall need to moderate (3,6) 12 Don’t contact workers in their free time

(5,3)

13 Number feel concern about cut (5) 15 Deeds brought before a judge (7) 17 Soaked in the deepest concoction (7) 19 Presumably they had good reasons for being late (7)

21 Control may rest in the wrong position (7) 22 Place to hang the bath plug is available (2,3)

24 Believe Bill has surplus wealth (8) 27 Hijacked, so named to be brought to book (9)

28 A vast expanse to have to clean (5)

29 A girl in the pink (4)

30 Wind instrument (10)

Down

1 A stupid fellow might sniff it (4) 2 Victor may show it when inclement (2,7) 3 The rate at which oceans rise (5) 4 No tribes out East may be UK citizens (7) 5 Elevates one from being pointlessly spiteful (7)

7 Get thinner and lighter (5)

8 When goods are sold out (6,4) 9 Masters the conversion of hectares (8) 14 His boss gets outside jobs for him (10) 16 Games period (8)

18 Quiet occupant of the chair (9)

20 Give a bite to? (7)

21 Pitch of the road (7)

23 Diets must change with the times (5) 25 New poems about old salts (5)

26 Train for boxing in the yard (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Without preparation (3,3,4) 6 Person greatly admired (4) 10 Farewell (5)

11 Ensure (9)

12 Express in fewer words (8) 13 Complain inarticulately (5) 15 An irregularity (7)

17 An upstart (7) 19 Conductor’s platform (7) 21 Brief notice (7) 22 Characteristic mode of expression (5)

24 Official list regularly kept (8) 27 Confinement (9) 28 Fish-eating semi-aquatic

animal (5)

29 To abandon (4)

30 A complete change (5,5)

DOWN

1 A spoken examination (4) 2 Paltry (9)

3 Harass relentlessly (5) 4 Power to convince (7) 5 Become suddenly angry (5,2) 7 That which has been said (5) 8 Be completely destroyed (3,2,5)

9 An importunate dependant (6-2) 14 Impartial (4-6)

16 Ill-feeling (8)

18 Area above an

earthquake’s focus (9) 20 Warlike (7)

21 Purplish-red (7)

23 Preface (5)

25 Articles of footwear (5) 26 Catch out by trick (4)