CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Biggest city constituency count is fine (6)

4 About to push back after crooked agent gives pep talk (6,2)

9/26 Double source of water in biggest city constituency (10)

10 Points to revise when Ron leaves uncontrolled destruction (4,4)

12 Giants devour live folk, living the high life (8)

13 See 15

15/13 Wrongly charge me going around a thousand metres as ex-Dons’ player (4,6)

16 Ghent ruler knocked about biggest city constituency (10)

19 Biggest city constituency is Lennox’s country (10)

20 Current choice available could decide constituency bases (2-2)

23 Biggest city constituency in favour of one leaving Russian (6)

25 Scots’ Queen coming to prominence in biggest city constituency with 9Ac 26Dn (8)

27 International platform for trading bloc in recession to raise interest (8)

28 The King almost getting into Hearts of Darkness in biggest city constituency (6)

29 Odd tales from Shettleston redevelopment, the weight of destiny, perhaps? (3,5)

30 Unprincipled characters reverse direction in formula romances (6)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across: 1 Assassinated 9 Afterlife 10 Guano 11,26 Par for the course 12 Platinum 13 Noises 14 Wrongful 17 Executor 19 Impure 21 Tertiary 23 Embody 25 Miami 27 Steeplechase

DOWN

1 Something presupposed put so I’m confused (7)

2 Former Aberdeen pupil left nobody out, including pair of ringleaders (4,5)

3 Elaborate point to make a speech about (6)

5 See 7

6 Catch abstract creative work in biggest city constituency (8)

7/5 Biggest city constituency dishes out mince (9)

8 Parents move just over a foot on horse (7)

11 Butlin’s complex supporting independence as integral (7)

14 Blether in Eastern country about West? Good (4-3)

17 Harbour admirer holding jawline (9)

18 Late back – punctures! Handout to flag down ride (3,1,4)

19 Pick a quiet period (7)

21 Mustard, perhaps, one collected in island (7)

22 Radical right-wing Young Conservative starts to enlist uneducated morons in college (6)

24 True love, unconventional and idiosyncratic (5)

26 See 9 Across

MACBETH

Down: 2 Saturnine 3 Aureole 4 Soil 5 Needlers 6 Tighten 7 Drain 8 Formaldehyde 9 Appendectomy 15 Faubourgs 16 Doorstep 18 Utilise 20 Mammoth 22 Reaps 24 Fete