CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1

Something required for hearing academic, one who checks text (11)

9 Celebrity chef lacking right fruit (5)

10 Nightlife so varied? It’s something visually followed (4,2,5)

11 Try to get photograph (4)

14 A sign of progress at an election once more (5)

16 Try to acquire article showing moorland plant (7)

17 Different trouble initially discounted (5)

18 Remove from a category food outlet on street (6)

19 Start to suspect among assistants private comments (6)

22 Some hint roundly in introductory piece (5)

23 First sign of this worker on Hebridean island having petulant outburst (7)

24 Pair with notion but not a form of self-respect (5)

25 Search for place that is much frequented overlooking area (4)

26 Popular royal tours heart of big place generally (2,9)

29 Type of window, one occupying unusual role (5)

30 Tell tourist off – and those who discard rubbish (6,5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across: 1 Salamander eggs 9 Population 10 Ales 12 Balmy 13 Pursue 16 Ally 17 Stronghold 19 Reorganise 20 Dear 22 Quarry 23 Filly 26 Each 27 Coincident 28,11dn Testify before a judge

DOWN

1 Friend has drink held up (3)

2 Possess some meadow nearby (3)

3 Fashion ploy possibly for politician (5,6)

4 Four directions taken over revolutionary period forming trap (7)

5 Lower in value degree read irregularly (7)

6 Hardened left-winger with no time for rubbish (3)

7 Newsman in this third ground gets to spread malicious gossip (4,3,4)

8 Enterprising opening on Yorkshire river supported by a number (11)

12 Supply information about garden building with lamp, say, working (4,5,2)

13 Battles nine arranged in indoor sport (5,6)

15 Ridiculous lines canon’s composed (11)

20 Women associated with fashionable dog, maybe, a racing one (7)

21 Put in a list site for developing around English motorway (7)

26 The Italian lecturer is out of sorts (3)

27 Pressure put on a university in French city (3)

28 Some model swing for a golfer (3)

Down: 2 Apps 3,15 A clear conscience 4 Automatons 5 Door 6 Gallstones 7 Suspender belts 8 Special request 14 Allowances 18 Agora 21 Albino 24 Pony 25 Here