CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Mechanical in his training, he will make a hole in a sort of stream (5-6)

6. Admit that one will be a proprietor (3)

8. Bar control of riotous feast being put back (5)

10. A mechanic needed to fit one racer out (9)

11. A strong desire to partake of our generosity (4)

12. It could be lug that will swell out (5)

13. Support the whip, with violent consequences (8)

16. Namely, goes over and over the Dead Sea manuscripts (7)

17. Tinkerbell didn’t begin by being jaunty (4)

18. Sloth taken back from Nicaraguan uplands (4)

19. Former partner, on being named, got agitated (7)

21. It’s shrewd to care about one professing sagacity (8)

23. Take it to the pillar to provide grub (5)

26. Christchurch’s river backs a star such as this (4)

27. How soul turns into liveliness (9)

28. What’s due to bed, it might appear (5)

29. The bard’s hit at the fodder (3)

30. Uniform not designed for peacetime (11)

DOWN

1. Carefully think about how intentional it is (10)

2. How to run ‘n live with skill and the impossibility of being wounded (15)

3. Generosity was great with the Saints (7)

4. A threadlike line in art is achievable (5)

5. Duplicates about fifty different rifles (7)

6. Piece of furniture that sometimes isn’t there? (10,5)

7. That he is a grass will annoy one (4)

9. It measures work, for instance, right in the centre (3)

13. Is skint of an alkaline substance (7)

14. Some of the unco letters she wrote (7)

15. It overshadows a speechless sort of stare (10)

19. She’s a little sheepish, being one’s dearest possession (3-4)

20. Made up one’s mind there was nothing for one, put into plain words

(7)

22. There’s a tidal wave in Scotland for the rest of the birds (5)

24. Hail starts as virtual explosion (3)

25. Make a mess of a minced dish (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 7. Featherweight 8. Ostentation

12. Straws 14. Seabed 16. Locker 18. Kettle 19. Double-entry

23. Condescending

Down 1. Hero 2. Stet 3. Tennis 4. Swears 5. Titi 6. Shin 9. Sirocco

10. Orbiter 11. Edge 12. Salt 13. Woe 15. Eke 17. Relish 18. Keeper

19. Doom 20. Urdu 21. Tide 22. Yank