CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Is cooked daily and closely interrogated (11)

6. The Spanish king is bigger than 19 Down (3)

8. There’s an element of zero in being brought into the world (5)

10. An addition to what one gets from certain men following a loss (9)

11. Is enthusiastic about one not to be replaced (4)

12. The French resort to the Right as being more pleasant (5)

13. Write a cheque sooner rather than later? (8)

16. Figure the parrot to have left, one is told (7)

17. It is the last word in the same notation (4)

18. In sudden irritation speak of the picture (4)

19. The discs are the best that have ever been done (7)

21. Magnificent: pickpockets return when about to advance one money (8)

23. There’s a rash of entertainment places (5)

26. Pole one knocks back (4)

27. Rep let Ravel turn to the right (9)

28. Edward composed regal Variations (5)

29. A little product loriner got his teeth into (3)

30. Neat roll, and how it’s slowing up (11) DOWN

1. Accommodation for passengers may be in ABC form (5,5)

2. Jumbo, as flown by SAA? (7,8)

3. It catches creatures parting in disorder (7)

4. Fast? That’s nothing, if it’s played so slowly (5)

5. Doctor maybe needs china to come from Meissen (7)

6. With its current input it has a noted output (10,5)

7. Bird that’s flying while one’s juggling the cheques (4)

9. A person who is singular (3)

13. Supervised by the law, I’d non-u couple turned out (7)

14. With added sweetness argues about desktop (7)

15. It’s opera, Sir, I’m in the process of bringing to the stage (10)

19. Might have erred about Old English animal (3-4)

20. Think it’s wrong to put cess out (7)

22. Perfect ladies who can’t quite make it (5)

24. Drink up with a boon companion (3)

25. A shot – not with a gun, but with a knife (4)