CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Charming prisoner endlessly eating head off (11)

6. One backed away from the platform, which is deplorable (3) 8. To sus endlessly out how it ejects one (5)

10. Are pinned so that the dress stands out from the hips (9)

11. Make dirty mould in which plants will grow (4) 12. Has to have Eden’s replacement (5) 13. Where it stands, no one will back the entire horse (8)

16. Packed close, the riders turn around final fence (7)

17. It is right to eke out the smell of smoke (4)

18. Piece of news involving two in a relationship (4)

19. Swing from end to end alphabetically, Peter may (7)

21. So industrious, one tingled in the making of it (8)

23. Stone ground flour suitable for making it? (5) 26. Exposure of a piece of stain (4) 27. Nothing to pay for manner of swimming (9) 28. Whips the top off the trophy (5) 29. Show a film of the chicken enclosure (3) 30. Changed over ferrets, and got them about right (11)

DOWN

1. Hit one over the head and race for China (5,5)

2. Old American flier one could see grasp opening (9-6) 3. Keeps making point about its sins (7) 4. Health deriving from bread, 5 (5) 5. Is closely questioned as to what 4 was (7)

6. She can bear it if it’s somebody else’s offspring (9,6) 7. Two parties no longer with us (4) 9. A sly person to be on one’s unaccompanied state (3)

13. If it’s safe, RUC will come out on top (7) 14. Meal – tin, perhaps: it’s still food (7) 15. Is concentrated in endless comedy by the newspapers (10)

19. Gemini giving extraterrestrial a jumper and cardigan (7)

20. Bind somebody to one who leaves nitrogen about (7) 22. A fibre many long to hold (5) 24. Because it’s colloquial, the lettuce is long (3) 25. It is seen from a distance in the leaf arrangement (4)