CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Shades of MI5? (6)

4 See 17 Down

9/10 Starts to feel sick about telling stories most can adapt old 19Ac (6,8)

12 A student engineer left on the side (8)

13 See 28

15/19D Wild rice covering small glen known as the 9Ac 10Ac (4,7)

16 Flog prime insurance among Gaels in borders’ town (10)

19 See firm ground for original 9Ac 10Ac (10)

20 Clamber up – cut top off thick branch (4)

23 Wheeriorum fish taking in oxygen and beginning to breathe (6)

25 Assigns living quarters in turbulent seas (8)

27 Something to make the hair curl, cut off in close and joined up (8)

28/13/26 Delivering regularly warped, wedged door before last resistance of great Scots lock (6,6,4)

29 Mack or Marvin sound apathetic, catch the drift (8)

30 Leaders of men, the illuminati in former mining town (6)

MACBETH

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

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Across: 1 Fleeting moment 9 Overexpose 10 Atto 12 Agora 13 Sprang 16 Dime 19 Turnbuckle 20 Auto 22 Hasten 23 Organ 26 Hail 27 Pianissimo 28 Preadolescence

DOWN 1

Nearly put up with swallowing American spread (7)

2 Demosthenes’ speech made up of: “Hi, NYC!” a lot (9)

3 Crowned head has empty sex in line at end of the 9Ac 10Ac (5,1)

5 Check rear occasionally when reversing round bend (4)

6 International union prize for being nutrient-rich (8)

7 Corsican setting for hirpling (5)

8 Americans bend knees after always standing? (7)

11 Punishment aplenty dished out (7)

14 Crop hair – I dropped undergarment (7)

17/4 Dine out on food served up hot to get cold feet on “magic” line at end of the 9Ac 10Ac (9,8)

18 Hurt badly in a ring where sweet Marie is waiting (8)

19 See 15 Across

21 First half of book by splendid Edinburgh writer (7)

22/24 Be more eager to recycle 9Ac 10Ac (6,5)

26 See 28 Across

Down: 2 Leek 3 Emerge 4 Importance 5 Gust 6 Extraneous 7 Thought control 8 Joined at the hip 11,17ac Upper management 14 Impressive 15 Ballerinas 18 Abbey 21 Lassie 24 Fill 25 Disc