CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Craving starts to act weird in North Lanarkshire ( 6)
4/ 3 Ensure bandage moved lower? ( 8,5)
9 Bootleg weak booze given back right away ( 7)
11 Precise ingredients cooked to Nick Nairn’s instructions? ( 7)
12 Hides relations on board ( 5)
13 Well- protected double borders in the garden ( 4)
14 Slow down with kilometre to go on slope ( 4) 16 Scottish TV race broadcast is way to pull sides together ( 8,6)
19 Arrange coup d’état and evade prosecutor ( 8,6)
23 Where men relieve themselves, but not in river ( 4)
24 Conscientious, knocking off chap in Southeast Asian capital ( 4)
25 Trio of goddesses starts to fall apart, leading to setback ( 5)
27 Kill pet, destroyed as a result of poor maintenance ( 3- 4)
28 Secure pub where one might get quick service ( 4,3)
29/ 25D Dance featuring countrywoman in tall heather ( 8,5)
30 Free range making a comeback in Moroccan port ( 6)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:
Across: 1 Pyroclastic, 9/ 14 Black Watch, 10 Lovat Scouts, 11 Anon, 16 Ad astra, 17 On cue, 18 Gordon, 19 Wee bit, 23 Cameron, 24 Extra, 25 Noir, 26 Highlanders, 29 Enema, 30 Striped tuna
DOWN
1 Carry the day entertaining a Caledonian panel ( 8)
2 Cross sailor gets over anger ( 7)
3 See 4 Across
5 Tenants reportedly ignore dodgy neighbourhood south of Edinburgh ( 7,6)
6 Support vehicle reverses over King’s head ( 4)
7 Private dick probes organised crime based on observation ( 7)
8 Senior becoming more intrusive ( 6)
10 Motorist often seen wasting champagne in island town ( 5,8)
15 Northern glacier is to one’s liking ( 4)
17 Holding replica Olympics on Loch Linnhe ( 4)
18 Ruler certain to be engulfed by unlimited smears ( 8)
20 Thigh pain is part of middle age spread I’m ignoring ( 4,3)
21 Performing dub poet gets into top bunk ( 2,2,3)
22 Dismissing empty rhetoric about quick march, overlooking kilometres leading to vessel ( 6)
25 See 29 Across
26 Duck to evade aircraft launch first of all ( 4)
Down: 1 Pal, 2 Rev, 3 Catastrophe, 4 Archway, 5 Trustee, 6 CBS, 7 Bannock Burn, 8 Skin- testing, 12 Rangefinder, 13 Hair- brained, 15 Honeymooned, 20 Integer, 21 Scallop, 26 Has, 27 Emu, 28/ 22 Seaforth