CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 One who throws things at a wheel (6)

No longer making quotations in dramatic style (8) A couple on watch? (4) In fact, the gathering is about due to finish (6) How to avoid being mated (6)

His fairly long running career moved into politics (3) Send payment for the right issue (5)

Frontier line? (4) Brown bread (5)

A measure that means a bit of a treat for me (5)

The vessel Cathy wrecked (5)

23 On which to get weaving! (4) Comparatively slow getting to the air terminal (5) Cheek! (3) Regrettably, Kay’s not finished, being in a state (6) Nature’s provision of shelter for sailors? (6) England forward who might mean nothing to a new back? (4)

Anna, girl in a novel attachment with a dissolute rake (8)

Being troublesome on purpose? (6) 7

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Polly, apt to be repetitive (6) Does his trade involve mixing oil into tar? (6) Central America has a cathedral city, depend on it! (4)

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19 20 21 Familiar name for poetry that’s various (7)

Note that it’s small at the bottom end (5) Player’s representative a long time at the theatre (5) Fish with many an expert (4) Did Adam’s keep him sober? (3)

Determined to get everything necessary (3) Gadget needed for an American soldier’s mode of operation (5) Possibly tigerish fliers? (5) Like a perfectly upright timber (5)

Not the complete sleuth (3) He’s got the knack (3) Blemishing the exam papers? (7) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 Agreement in the very essence (3) Uniformly brownish attire? (6)

Liable to show an upsurge in nepotism (4)

The gold-digger’s department of expertise? (6) Doesn’t have many a sound axe (5)

Hang around waiting for the feathers? (5)

It’s kept in Delaware, but broken in Wales (3) Cover needed when the medico is hors de combat (4)