CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Request to stop a bleak ad concocted for a pudding (5,6)

9 Short journey taken by a director in criminal group (5)

10 A man serving in mass caught cleric that’s disrupted privileged elite (5,6)

11 Trainer, maybe, excelled with no end of distinction (4)

14 Heather and Oscar displaying jargon (5)

16 Spying device getting a sound of disapproval is object of dislike (7)

17 Guide unusual number in front of group (5)

18 Managed, when beset by mob in East End, minor task (6)

19 One working at wheel has to move unhurriedly (6)

22 Foreign banker for all to see enthralled by labels (5)

23 A dry type of house backed occasionally (2,5)

24 Peer has some qualifications? Not a lot (5)

25 Act democratically seeing polls in view of this election (4)

26 Field events requiring organisation? That’s obvious (4-7)

29 Comic book hero followed by a woman (5)

30 Fun miner led after work in Scottish place (11)

DOWN

1 Worthless strike with power gone (3)

2 Kelvin for one has beer container (3)

3 One ascribed changes to what environmentalists want to do? (11)

4 Learner getting support on base is struck by illness (4,3)

5 Dessert in very short space of time? (7)

6 Had meaty food without a starter (3)

7 Elevated veteran missing latest jolly period (4,3,4)

8 Figure in risky enterprises very shortly in ME city with visitor, nothing less (11)

12 Impartial types show this thing, one fundamentally all missed (11)

13 A good group of worshippers, without Conservative, gathering in one group (11)

15 Work left in sum in a mess showing chancer’s behaviour? (11)

20 Sentimental graduate put on uniform and left amid racket (7)

21 Chap around group that’s spun language (7)

26 Regular characters in stands becoming depressed (3)

27 Priest found in Dundee library (3)

28 By the sound of it, Asian language is a draw (3)