CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Grimly fight temptations, I’d guess

9you’d say... (2,4)

4 Social climber returns pastry left in 11Ac meeting (8)

9 Chatter about protesting crowd’s revolutionary chemical weapon (3,4)

11 Lady’s first cutting making better hair treatment (7)

12/25D Riga and Calais blasted 11Ac stone quarry (5,5)

13 Starts to act suspiciously around politician, given current measures (4)

14 See 6 Down

16 Domesticated champion raging terribly inside 11Ac (3,7,4)

19 Review policy terms after success perhaps going downhill? (6,8)

23 Moving goalposts, Togo’s out of range (4)

24 Initial hit calls for calm heads after my return (4)

25 First indications of cash return on capital invested in spring flowers (5)

27 Spare thousand? So that’s your opinion? (5,2)

28 Without heading for crash, Major Tom is seer (7)

29 Stuff in flats, perhaps leading to writers’ blocks (8)

30 Content of Pentagon icebox has no angle (6)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across: 1 Dressy, 4 Acted out, 9/6 Clip-on earrings, 10 Amaretti, 12 Noblemen, 13 Silent, 16 Teenage fan, 19 Unhittable, 20 Ends, 25 Atlantic, 27 Reviewed, 28/22 Remote camera, 29 Own say-so, 30/23 Washes dishes

DOWN

1 Martins, around the end of spring, are these (8)

2 Ballet nouvelle’s ignominious content taken the wrong way (7)

3/22 North American resort gets rid of hollow canoe for 19Ac champion 26Dn (5,6)

5 How many people need lifts? (8,5)

6/14 Fills our blown up inflatable board (4,4)

7 Three separate sources of inspiration in complex drum element (7)

8 Accesses a computer for journal issue (4,2)

10 Normal mud bird runs free near Stirling (5,8)

15 African god of iron Mungo rises up without revealing source of Nile (4)

17 Picks nasty spot (4)

18 Conservative in mid-Dumbarton is thus rejected, like James Macpherson’s poetry (8)

20 Politician right at home in information technology makes an impression (7)

21 Female superhero? (4,3)

22 See 3

25 See 12 Across

26 Pass over rubbish dump (4)

STAPLETON

Down: 2/7/24/26 Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, 3/15 Scored a try, 8/1 Tristan da Cunha, 11/21 Federal secrets, 14 Inflate,

17/5 Fine-tooth comb, 18 St Helena, 19 Undergo