CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Line of knitting catching trout? Very funny! (3-8)

6. Who would shortly be beheaded? The carrier! (3)

8. Hears how one escapes infestation of them (5)

10. Risk losing hydrogen when called roughly away and struck off (9)

11. Stake put up for return of heating vessel (4)

12. Front page of leaf, end lost by head of college (5)

13. Low quality seen as being wrong in a singer (8)

16. Corner of a foreign field worked by 5, North for East? (7)

17. Silly to put old copper on back of ship (4)

18. Game played looping the loop (4)

19. Flavour, thanks to being in service with first-class return (7)

21. Mineral sort of water: take a litre right away (8)

23. Self-assertive back-up for the retiring (5)

26. Juicy, rich – and drunk! (4)

27. Get rid of priest in team-change (9)

28. Legislative power with which to chew things over? (5)

29. Quickly pass the ambassador who holds one (3)

30. No such object of worship at the evening performance? (7,4)

DOWN

1. General vote will turn to put a stop to hesitation (10)

2. Chamber is, for Poe, different: engagement 10! (6,2,7)

3. To come: shop has it (2,5)

4. A pin taken up by a climber (5)

5. Information Eastern lad somehow scraped together (7)

6. With respect faces the world, as does one’s neck (5,2,4,4)

7. Art movement changed tail, seeing cubic block (4)

9. If it is archaic, it will be industrious (3)

13. (Proper name) Car – GT – a tub? One’s got that wrong! (7)

14. Pinch it a bit (7)

15. Spurious copy Raphael turned out, having no energy (10)

19. Is entering sphere of action seeing things as they are (7)

20. Is he harmless to the Cockney? (7)

22. Passage for all to express disapproval at giving up Italian (5)

24. Housed without 6 Ac for profit derived from property (3)

25. Time-sharing involves this trap (4)