THE CROSSWORDS
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 A meal’s been cooked for sailors (4,6)
6 Word to describe Bush’s presidency for example? (4)
10 Ten is about all right as a symbol (5)
11 Far Eastern symbol of the dawn (6,3)
12 Burst into song about wine? Fair enough! (8)
13 Not above using two foreign articles (5)
15 Maybe Lister had a point making things so (7)
17 Time for expansion (7)
19 Before the vote, this will decide the issue (7)
21 Lettuce goes down for pets (7)
22 It may be grand entertainment (5)
24 The virtue of having spoken it in my presence (8)
27 Society member who is not even a member of society (9)
28 Very much a negative result (2,3)
29 Long pointless story (4)
30 It’s rather a colourless affair, mind (4,6)
DOWN
1 Plays parts or play’s parts (4)
2 Mere versifiers (4,5)
3 Foreign title, possibly Norse (5)
4 Express a policy on travel service (7)
5 Officers sensing change (7)
7 Used some oil from a seed perhaps (5)
8 He has a liking for sovereigns (10)
9 Asks how paper may be sold (8)
14 Subject for those who have the mind to study (10)
16 Took off (8)
18 Well, no one wants it! (9)
20 Even as a loser, he’s still better (7)
21 Spice for which transport is not immediately available (7)
23 Tree, evidently of some antiquity (5)
25 Girl puts lad in turmoil (5)
26 Love on the German river (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Humiliation (4,2,4)
6 Earnest entreaty (4)
10 Skilled trade (5)
11 Uncivilized (9)
12 Piety (8)
13 Live as resident (5)
15 Furnish (7)
17 A dried grape (7) 19 A cephalopod (7)
21 Army commander (7)
22 To be performed softly (5)
24 An arboreal rodent (8)
27 Going from place to place (9) 28 Impressive (5)
29 Nonsense (4)
30 Whatever happens (2,3,5)
DOWN
1 Be short of (4)
2 Fall guy (9)
3 Surpass (5)
4 Feverish (7)
5 Of long duration (7)
7 Inexact (5)
8 Unconditionally (10)
9 Official Chinese language (8) 14 Not completely (2,2,1,5) 16 Unseemly (8)
18 Pleasant (9)
20 Undergo (7)
21 Greedy eater (7)
23 An assumed name (5)
25 Wash in clean water (5) 26 Special aptitude (4)