CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Suit senior side ( 6)

4 Peculiar fungus returning in sci- fi production ( 8)

9 Batter partly- digested food, semi- solid? ( 6)

10 Senior side travelling to Barra with head start ( 8)

12 Saint Helen’s senior side? ( 2,6)

13/ 5 Senior side’s royal vivacity? ( 5’ 1,4)

15 Extremely worried about an item of potter’s equipment ( 4)

16 Aviators maybe grassed on girls ( 10)

19 Somehow normal to find boot outside senior side ( 10)

20 Composer wants orchestra initially very loud with conductor’s final entrance ( 4)

23 Cryptic clue papers led to mathematician ( 6)

25 Crude oil on tap? It’s up to you ( 8)

27 Clandestine kit bug attractor ( 3,5)

28 Base removed as from state 51? ( 6)

29 Unfortunately, his time swallowing the last of gin leads to chronic caffeine poisoning ( 8)

30 Needing good wool before beginning to knit coat ( 6)

MACBETH DOWN

1 Reporter witnessed blade used to slash copper ( 7)

2 Gutsy hussy quits badly organised busman’s holiday ( 9)

3 Conservative grasping starts to harm electoral opinion ( 6)

5 See 13 Across

6 Global flier looking round for a letter? ( 8)

7 Fit up polar ship with steel interior ( 5)

8 Premier critic shoots wildly at Ant and Dec ( 2- 5)

11 Unalloyed rebuilt engine housing - internal combustion? ( 7)

14 Vessels often boarded by soldiers? ( 7)

17 Senior side backs up bringing in northern skill ( 9)

18 Musical senior side ( 8)

19 Exercise involving castle under attack? Quite the opposite ( 4,3)

21 Almost fall over captain of senior side ( 7)

22 Dentist’s incomplete treatment is done with solutions ( 4,2)

24 Senior side died with bonnie flower? ( 5)

26 Senior side’s odd numbers leaving their bus ( 4)