CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Makes threefold stir: place it thus (11)

6. It is a snag to making a drink with eggs (3)

8. Location finder also goes east-west (5)

10. Positive number of trousers (4-5)

11. An old Peruvian was at home, roughly (4)

12. Poet’s under one (a third part) (5)

13. Spider that could protect a roundabout (8)

16. Don’t let oneself be a burden (7)

17. Harvest? Cut it short (4)

18. Short weight returned in charge of the animals (4)

19. Chairs with arms for those engaged in sculpture (7)

21. Emphasises the strains one may be under (8)

23. Dance soldier has with half the guests (5)

26. Is against giving it an altered form (4)

27. Get rid of Elian time-change (9)

28. A statuette for Mr Hammerstein (5)

29. Wood whose apple is gall (3)

30. The larva has a metal track (11)

DOWN

1. Being despotic, can try nail-bending (10)

2. In which boy on the climb has no means of support (6,4-5)

3. Curl around with a girl’s dog (7)

4. Dish out a road charge as it arises (5)

5. Maybe ran off south for the flavour (7)

6. One logic I labour for is of an organism’s nerve structure (15)

7. Catch breath, getting a whiff of phosphorus (4)

9. Soldier or worker, in human terms (3)

13. Bears the expense of roads around French and Finnish capitals (7)

14. Merchants do a swap with the Royal Society (7)

15. The beadle is the bringer of a sort of tear-gas (4-6)

19. One with abdominal disease – a colic – may need energy (7)

20. Italian gentlemen put their name to it, or one does (7)

22. It is the purpose of the Scots to colonise without a leader (5)

24. It has, in short, to sit around (3)

25. He’s a brave man who will give a lady nothing (4)