THE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 A bouncer at the gym club (10) 6 Game bird? (4)

10 Murphy’s pile? (5)

11 Entrance the prisoner is put out at (9) 12 Exist on next to nothing, being humble (8) 13 Coming back encountered very good times (5)

15 Produces 5 Down (7)

17 One sort of shirt used as a vest (7) 19 Rise for the workers? (7)

21 Aren’t in order to go by rail (7)

22 Tale about the east is long (5)

24 As fast as you can go (3,5)

27 A reckoning that comes to nothing (9) 28 One is confused in two ways by the lights (5)

29 Restrictions imposed for cup matches (4) 30 Came between people (10)

Down

1 Robin Hood’s favourite sweets (4) 2 Awfully mean beast causing humiliation (9) 3 Is rising to go for a drink (5)

4 Places drawn roughly to scale (7) 5 Young crabs? (7)

7 Signal fear (5)

8 What members of a group must do to avoid discord? (4,2,4)

9 Separate - that’s abundantly clear (8) 14 Sporty group in Cathy’s new boat (5,5) 16 They keep locks in order (8)

18 Not free to rent cargo space on board (9) 20 Fail to deflate a tyre (3,4)

21 Cost price (7)

23 A quaintly pleasing French accent (5) 25 A reason for high-speed flying? (5) 26 Ushered her out, being exhausted (4)