CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Central Tokyo wiped out in rocky eruption amid pliable deadly flow ( 11)

9/ 14 Anyone but Light Infantry on guard? ( 5,5)

10 Endless tenderness, with outcasts playing soldiers ( 5,6)

11 Soon to be briefly unknown ( 4)

14 See 9

16 Designed as a dart going like a rocket ( 2,5)

17 Tip with chalk here as expected ( 2,3)

18 Type of 26Ac - Road- piercing spike, perhaps ( 6)

19 In sense, insect returns for a morsel ( 3,3)

22 See 28 Down

23 Type of 26Ac - More involved in tin soldiers? ( 7)

24 Walk on right back in the middle of interminable test ( 5)

25 Artist not concerned with film genre ( 4)

26 Battling hard with English soldiers ( 11)

29 Lameness holding back medical procedure ( 5)

30 Skipjack from distant Peru ( 7,4)

MACBETH DOWN

1 Find a mate for odd pearl ( 3)

2 Give some gas to The Little Minister ( 3)

3 Attach ropes incorrectly, with disastrous outcome ( 11)

4 Affectedly playful manner when making an entrance ( 7)

5 Extremely good person in faithful service finally becomes board member ( 7)

6 Network of odd cubist ( 3)

7 Flat bread set on fire runs into 22Ac ( 7,4)

8 Most in need of funds in final drug allergy trialling ( 4- 7)

12 Distance calculator destroyed in garden fire put out ( 11)

13 Head covering undercover support in education is unworkable ( 4- 7)

15 Went on tour immediately after joining up ( 11)

20 Reconfigured regiment losing one thousand in number ( 7)

21 Seafood concession acquiring grounds ( 7)

26 Suffers from smash up every now and then ( 3)

27 Letter from Greece following introduction of endangered flightless bird ( 3)

28/ 22 Type of 26Ac - Look ahead to the audience ( 8)

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