CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hydrangea first drawn in by artist, a flower (6)

4 Grant invested in land – indulge oneself (6,2)

9 Target drink and bumps the price (5,2)

11/1D Broadcaster free to catch fish cooked by Lib Dem (7,8)

12 Capercaillie gets captured in Belgium (5)

13 Burns’ acquaintance, Bertie? (4)

14/27 One very short book about, as an alternative, old songwriter (4,7)

16 “Just one more spin” or “Stick or twist?” could be healthier notions (6,8)

19 PM revises a small change following Munich agreement (5,9)

23/3 A USSR/Eire combination in scarce edition (4,5)

24 Unusually cold victim of 5Dn (4)

25/2 Gathering in Emmental, perhaps, or spaghetti as reported by 11Ac 1Dn on 5Dn (5,7)

27 See 14

28 Get rid of wrinkles, happy ending revealed by Scotswoman (7)

29 Shortly register nothing as rejected writer (8)

30 Skinflint exchanges credit for the first victim of 10Dn (6)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across: 1 Attachment 6,20 Make appointments 9 Mainlining 10 Tour 12 Cut one’s teeth 15 Univalves 17,18 Photo frame 19 Conundrum 24 Ibis 25 Bombsights 26 Tote 27 Astrakhans

DOWN

1 See 11 Across

2 See 25 Across

3 See 23 Across

5 Discarded fair play, so old shenanigans accepted this morning (5,5,3)

6 Shin, for instance, starts to lose original curly hair (4)

7 World leaders’ commercial tax on tub of blue dye (4,3)

8 Burst drains in the pits (6)

10 Trick with a cool jape played with nothing to lose this morning (9,4)

15 Indian burial site covering half of the land (4)

17 Until now, occasionally leave with sore finger tips (4)

18 Not out of sight, perhaps, looking at way (2,1,5)

20 Journey’s end for a competitor around mid-afternoon (7)

21 Garden tool found under cut grass, reportedly leading to weary expression (5-2)

22 Final thoughts about offensive tricks on 5Dn (6)

25 Attention-grabber puts large barrel in middle of road on 5Dn (5)

26 Drug-free, clean family (4) it one

Down: 1 Aims 2 Toil 3 Calculated it 4 Mango 5 Non-person 7 Above board 8 Earthworms 11 Stop and think 13 Suffragist 14 Disappoint 16 Vocations 21 Ember 22 Shoa 23 Uses