Herald on Sunday

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. It’s a relief, having such an ornament to pin on (5,6)

6. A blood relation is twice to make a comeback (3)

8. Those unsuited to their sittings (5)

10. Such an animal enjoys party affairs (9)

11. How to adorn the floor (4)

12. It is badly situated in the French city (5)

13. Nitrogenou­s substances cause decay in spine perhaps (8)

16. One going in for natter around noon (7)

17. Is no different from such as are charged (4)

18. A supreme part for the foot (4)

19. Disbelief in divinity of his team (7)

21. How cold a run it may be for a boiler (8)

23. It beats tongue-tastings (5)

26. Cent has to be changed for ready money (4)

27. Lines of ancestors desire peg to be altered (9)

28. So one turns, and it may hang one (5)

29. Set one on to fight a sailor (3) 30. Quadruple doubly? (11)

DOWN

1. Middle of light bedspread? (10)

2. One traditiona­lly conservati­ve is central to Greenland maybe (6,9)

3. Outside broadcast soundly seen as being filthy (7)

4. There’s nothing as obstinate as such a smell (5)

5. A position of responsibi­lity in a tricky situation (3,4)

6. Not an original place of learning (9,6)

7. A group of turtles held up in the laboratory (4)

9. Part of the elusive one that’s slippery (3)

13. It may be jug for a baseball player (7)

14. It can make one too vain, a standing cheer (7)

15. It is material to the furnishing of a room (10)

19. It might be legal, or brisk (7)

20. Dark pigment could mean nil result (7)

22. It is, literally, the end (5)

24. Replay feature of film is to come to nothing (3)

25. It’s best to turn up at this location (4)

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