CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Little faults with mis-placed coils (11)

6. Incline to be a pickpocket (3)

8. How to name the letters of a magic charm (5)

10. Devil-worshippers posed with a variety of saints (9)

11. Flesh in tame variety (4)

12. I do it wrong, fool that I am (5)

13. No French athletic pursuit? Don’t leave the country without it (8)

16. Half-made odour of a climb-down (7)

17. It is of no legal force, and void too (4)

18. A paper asterisk (4)

19. A line to an artist (7)

21. The parts of daffodils that get blown (8)

23. Two for the devil (5)

26. How to set fire to water in Scotland (4)

27. North American flat-dwellers? (9)

28. Plants that in public act independently (5)

29. 20th letter peg (3)

30. Never do I lug it around to spoil the children (11)

DOWN

1. Bubonic plague could silence pet (10)

2. In a battle situation, it’s a gas! (8,7)

3. Removed, behind schedule, in bad disorder (7)

4. Mother gives everything up at first for alpaca (5)

5. Dan tips it out where the children play (7)

6. Local government makes disco turn licit around 3rd December (8,7)

7. Don’t answer the question but get through the test (4)

9. Sign that gives the French a zero (3)

13. I am surrounded by imitation jewellery: it’s my hobby (7)

14. How one hustles the detectives (7)

15. Coming from America, Les could give it a sweet coating (10)

19. Allspice used in pie (not mustard initially) (7)

20. Mussolini, when in the red, took weight off (7)

22. It isn’t our time to get an inheritor (5)

24. A period that starts each recurrent age (3)

25. Catch sight of a mark on the billiard table (4)