CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Standing alone or nine-deep: don’t duck out (11)

6. The present has to be won back (3)

8. Part of a poem is unable to come to nothing (5)

10. Chew items a cat has scattered (9)

11. Domesticated variety of meat (4)

12. Bow, one is told, to nothing on the borderland of hell (5)

13. Deal with a cockerel, one aspic is made from (8)

16. Denies being left so isolated (7)

17. Palm might show one’s ancestry (4)

18. Demand quiet when at home, but perhaps it’s barked (4)

19. Continual shifting of pontoons, nonetheless (3-4)

21. Name in article about an instrument (8)

23. Request one to supply some neatness (5)

26. Political slant imparted by a bowler maybe (4)

27. Excessive praise by aunt gives idol a turn (9)

28. He represents one for a long time, not being disheartened (5)

29. Tree to plant with a stick (3)

30. Ladies who write about the USA roses (11)

DOWN

1. Instilled by uncle, I’d act it out (10)

2. It’s ridiculous that I’m not to be tickled (4,4,2,5)

3. Change tempo, or lift one a grade (7)

4. Play the mad Academician maybe (5)

5. Is joined one to one by dint of new arrangement (7)

6. With myopia things are different, dense, and start shifting (4-11)

7. At what time will you say there’s enough in your glass? (4)

9. This is the bill for the curtain (3)

13. Roll of hair almost gone inch astray (7)

14. Overcoat a wan child needs (7)

15. Gets through with trepan: see top of thalamus (10)

19. Blissful state, north Virginia, in rain-storm (7)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 7. Miscellaneous 8. Redoubtable

12. Rubble 14. Ranger 16. Caries 18. Scotch 19. Communicant

23. Pronunciation

Down 1. Pier 2. Acid 3. Clause 4. Batter 5. Herb 6. Fuse 9. Embargo

10. Lighten 11. Arch 12. Rock 13. Lie 15. Arc 17. Squint 18. Spirit

19. Core 20. Monk 21. Acts 22. Troy