CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Nodes unknown in 50 mph landings in leaving disarray (5,6)

6. Tell a better story of an England cricketer, say (3)

8. Can Roman be a landed estate? (5)

10. A know-nothing might be using mora for it (9)

11. Ere I’m the land of emeralds (4) 12. Pencil-like pen has nasty look about it (5)

13. Train will go no farther in muster of this sort (8)

16. Seeing that the Sappers mean what they say (7)

17. Have the courage to issue a challenge (4)

18. A shot or a dagger wound (4) 19. A woolly for one who is perspiring (7)

21. Worship of images laid Tory out (8)

23. Five paid incorrectly, and that’s flat (5)

26. Mother joins American soldier with the Wise Men (4)

27. Church is to err about him singing in the choir (9)

28. After an absence those from

Frankfurt may infect one (5) 29. Long, one is told, to change colour (3) 30. Given new life by green, dear ET did a swap (11)

DOWN

1. They shield the light from the spirits (10)

2. Paid for picking oakum? It’s a cinch! (5,3,3,4)

3. Do such enfants terribles get the DTs? (7)

4. Perhaps an obtuse way to catch fish (5)

5. It could be the mass of the army (7) 6. Sense of belonging to a body of people on Scotch, say (9,6)

7. It is after one’s mail (4) 9. Essential investment for city slicker (3)

13. Line off at which one goes divergently (7)

14. Coming down to earth, where an astronaut is concerned (7)

15. Given a grant, bids us change side (10)

19. Perhaps a regular strip of bread-andbutter (7)

20. He lays waste to a grave that could be about right (7) 22. Ruff’s mate will thread her way through (5)

24. For example, a turn-up that shall not weary them (3) 25. Help to include carbon as a hallucinogen (4)