DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Plot to clear difficulties and go after power (6)

5 Quite clear about hobble I had (6)

10 Many long pieces of fabric (5)

11 Half the internal organ get a break in the sentence (9) 12 Synagogue’s leader charges ahead with reception setup (6,4) 13 Follow English leader to the leader of Venice (4) 15 Doctor housed in new pine farm building (6) 17 Read about most unfortunate Caledonian (8) 19 One great stride by American intelligence involving the loss of hair (8) 20 Circles some ammunition (6) 23 Terminates duties after losing head (4)

24 Spree catapulted call girl to the underworld (10) 27 Sweet frozen dessert to follow strong drink (9) 28 Live to get out and about the seafront (5)

29 Big bucks from breaking the law (6)

30 Give satisfaction to the guilty, for example, before sentence ends (6)

DOWN

2 Laid out before the first of the birds wing it (2,3)

3 Mad antic left the first mate right on the bridge (10) 4 Makes fast young female ring male (6)

5 Irish verse about green grass in a stack (8)

6 Staff provides spice (4) 7 State of males in crown possession (4,2,3)

8 Set up bad parent (6) 9 Train as a doctor and lay to rest by mid-evening (6) 14 Hope master sets the mood (10)

16 Ludicrous to get euro changed around the square (9)

18 Six waste away being malicious (8)

19 Can be cultivated by one operating baler (6)

21 Hates turning her head in tight dress (6)

22 Dormant snake had swallowed fish tail first (6) 25 Heads to old maple with its leaves out (5)

26 Ring road charge (4)