CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

NO.555

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CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Day came to organise a school (7) 5 Prisoner caught by pet’s new idea (7) 10 Laid-back type of control (4) 11 Betting eastern agents lean on authority (10) 12 Lazy person is a garden pest and a terrible drag (8) 13 Withdrawal of second holy book (6) 14 An appealing type of angle (5) 16 Greek character works miracle outside from experience (9) 19 Impediment of deer to implementation of crane (9) 21 Mix of metals is a bargain, we hear (5) 23 Quietly attach the French oar (6) 25 Rely on king to put off becoming insolvent (8) 27 Some medicine is a nuisance to an assassin (10) 28 Primate gets a kiss at the top (4) 29 Engineers get insurance and then get better (7) 30 Mollify primate with some vegetables (7)

DOWN

2 Relax around area of high land (5) 3 Happy to provide some illumination indeed (9) 4 Bit of bad luck, his map being off (6) 6 Cooking ingredient – woman gets round with one left (5,3) 7 Room to put old instrument (5) 8 Suggest an order for pale stout (9) 9 Models go astray, but not very often (6) 15 Feature conscious of breakable items (9) 17 Connection to a frenetic organisation (9) 18 Corrupt sentence from the back of the court (8) 20 Horse has graduate in his element (6) 22 Catch parent changing the arrangement (6) 24 Creature down under doing badly (5) 26 Exert force on reporters (5)