CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1.

Need of merit queenmay be right to acquire (11)

6. Amgoing back to find parking on the chart (3)

8. Strips back to time off (5)

10. It’s awkward to comeround as a parvenu (9)

11. Bacchic cry put back in the overture (4)

12. Make no such ossawithout fuss (5)

13. The later university is of claywith iron compounds (8)

16. The problem of returning the cover toJane’s book (7)

17. Two regarded as one thing that’s listed (4)

18. It comes tomind when a die is cast (4)

19. Soft soap used with a face-cloth (7)

21. With nervous disorder for which there’s no cure, it appears (8)

23. With credit, set out for the hilltop (5)

26. It’s nothing but a twitching of the ears (4) 27. Make laws into legal ties (9)

28. ‘For ____ are straws, men’s faiths arewafer-cakes’(HenryV) (5)

29. Incite one to fight a sailor (3)

30. Lovers ofTessweather the storm (11)

Down

1. Laughable state of one British yield he’d abandoned (10)

2. HM’s courier is an officer with official dispatches (6,9)

3. Sort of poems I’d laid on one (7)

4. Thewalrus is a dashed dotty thing (5)

5. Guesthouse in Greeceputsafinish to the inn (7)

6. So it is curried to calm the theatre’s orchestra conductor (7,8)

7. That is, in afterthought, old Indian money (4)

9. Time preceding event going up and down (3)

13. Having to depend on it, learn about it (7)

14. It’s adevilishway to do mince (7) 15. Makes play of it as dreams are made of it (10) 19. Wooded areas that start furnishing a variety of stores (7) 20. Milk-sugarmay be produced to scale (7)

22. The fibre tiles aremade from(5)

24. It has themanner of turning up as a drowned valley (3) 25. The story of a novel stratagem(4)