The Star Early Edition

CRYPTIC CLUES

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ACROSS

1 Factors in a public lavatory (6) 5 Suspect is extracted from legalised compound (7) 10 Attractive job at the end of a course (7,4) 11 Tribe of a topless NZ bird (3) 12 Queen’s speech is cut, about the beginning of the end (4) 13 Chose trees to make card for the game (10) 15 Tips head off about byway (8) 16 A Zionist leader had entered the Arab free market (6) 19 Nothing between the ears and a lot of petals around the head (6) 20 Long ago, completed examinatio­n (4-4) 23 Fantastic behind closed doors (3,2,5) 25 Observer beholds vacant eyes (4) 27 Mostly warm relations (3) 28 Looking into her case, crushed inside telephone box (11) 29 Drop violent scene between daughters (7) 30 German field marshal has new role guarding two Frenchmen (6)

DOWN

2 Great War’s captive broke under explosive mixture (9) 3 Nothing applied around a fingertip (4) 4 Understand­ing town of Icelandic legend? (8) 5 Love affairs when drunk on endless sour mash (6) 6 Lazy one that the school tolerates around university (5-5) 7 Grouse is ready to pluck after the end of hunting (5) 8 Bum crack concealed by the German (7) 9 Dog paddles with paws on the edges of waterlogge­d ground (6) 14 Former power paid out constabula­ry (5,5) 17 Vet raised parts to plug (9) 18 About that piece of music that’s broadcasti­ng (2,3,3) 19 Corrupt, like the bishop’s staff (7) 21 Hand in one’s notice to rock singer (6) 22 Partisan stationed outside the front of institutio­n (6) 24 Crank up one’s capital (5) 26 Racket science, in the morning (4)

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