CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 17,301

ACROSS

1 Reserve managed in tropics requires membership fee (12)

8 Let out relative in

front of facility (7)

9 Bother at time (not half!) for industrial designer Ettore (7)

11 Board game cut short amid cold period in Hampshire city (10)

12 Support Greek character

when cycling? (4)

14 Value too much something recorded in cricket? (8)

16 A new colour scheme for cars in Northern Ireland town (6)

17 Figure with pointed ears

in chapel, famously (3)

19 Group of ants in land

controlled by another? (6) 21 Curiously rum idea around end of lunch for curler Eve (8)

24 Sound of a swinish

sort? (4)

25 Showy pot in ground, site

of potential violence? (10) 27 Regularly occurring need possibly with spy chief in charge (7)

28 Feeling shown by English

poet Andrew (7)

29 Elevated settee Ron’s repaired? It’s well suited to person’s tastes (2,4,6)

DOWN

1 Lack of noise staggered Neil in southern church (7)

2 French boat wrecked

beside a shoreline? (10)

3 Wood preservative found by Oscar thus in Greek island (8)

4 Popular book about duke describing a dynasty? (6)

5 Clothes obtained

in turn by Bob (4)

6 Charlie captivated by reboot broadcast in part of autumn (7)

7 Coolest award for dancing to come to an end? (4,2,1,5)

10 Digit man in IT formulated, making another fearful? (12)

13 Record extremely posh individual getting an intercom (10)

15 Tree in the Spanish

mountains principally (3) 18 Very particular fellow, American, getting restricted rest abroad (8) 20 Assembled policy supported by Northern Ireland party (5,2)

22 One favouring cream? (7) 23 Sudden quick movements

in films (6)

26 Part of boom anticipated

in Middle East country (4)