CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Up on marital disharmony, he’ll work it to his own advantage (11)

6. Catch a conical ball of thread (3)

8. May have the lead in warship’s firepower (5)

10. Name smart sort of weaponry (9)

11. Nine taking one a plant (4)

12. Dried plums not started by letters of the futhork (5)

13. Antonio’s friend might ban oasis (8)

16. Confiscate each set that comes adrift (7)

17. Offer to return to son, which is child’s play (4)

18. Is in for no end of intelligence (4)

19. Alarm, as it’s given to drink (7)

21. It is going around a board in a room (8)

23. An eccentric way to start a motor (5)

26. Double praise is given back (4)

27. Sort of quadrilateral prized to a turn (9)

28. It has its point, so inject it with a drug (5)

29. Name it the reverse of a flower yet to open (3)

30. Reply due and, in the confusion, made little of it (11)

DOWN

1. A reminder from Mum, and more to be made of it (10)

2. See me guard my rear with a slogan (3,2,2,4,)

3. See slip made out of military cloak (7)

4. A hearing not completed in the vestibules (5)

5. Dash into a bit of fortification (7)

6. Private nature shown if I defy Latin cot-making (15)

7. It’s a job for the mail (4)

9. Chop part of a hexagon up (3)

13. Rum raid carried out after taxi turns up (7)

14. Female report on the whole affair (7)

15. Weak, having joints that meet in the middle (5-5)

19. Musical fragment that came our roundabout way (7)

20. After The Bill, Lucas turned to pointing of the finger (7)

22. Going east by way of north, turning unworldly (5)

24. How to knock a criminal charge (3)

25. Have a shot at it but with a dagger (4)