CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Contradict fixed odds in North- east port ( 6)

4 Smoke like some old public school boys do ( 4,1,3)

9 One’s detained popular chum ( 6)

10 See 22 Down

12 See 29

13 Sweetens the breath of nut in speech ( 6)

15/ 30 I hear fiend going berserk, so shrink in terror ( 4,2,4)

16 Gregg’s admitting struggling chum with head start for actor ( 4,6)

19 Head off on hair- raising emergency transportation ( 10)

20 See 7 Down

23 Played by 16Ac in 7Dn 20Ac, source of water in reservoir ( 6)

25 Forces’ sweetheart very nearly changed name ( 4,4)

27/ 2 Cary Grant involved with naked Mom, a creation of 16Ac ( 4,4,9)

28 No time to talk with boxer in base ( 6)

29/ 12 I’ll be there as fast as possible to make Samoa a concession ( 2,4,2,1,3,4)

30 See 15

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across: 4 Space Jam, 9/ 1 Easter Rising, 10 Clansman, 12 Executed, 13 Bonsai, 15/ 14 Rear gunners, 16 Republican, 19 Cohabiting, 20 Sync, 25 Gradient, 27 A- listers, 28 Pizazz, 29 Ethnonym, 30 Reckon.

DOWN

1/ 5 Round the bend about upset, Rishi grabs last attempt with 27Ac 2Dn’s employer ( 7,4)

2 See 27 Across

3 Entire complaint activists have ( 6)

5 See 1

6 See 24

7/ 20 Butcher has new targets involving 16Ac ( 5,4)

8 Leave for the winter and take a turn for the worse ( 2,5)

11 No satisfying conclusion to moving abroad at Gulf state ( 7)

14 Take great pains to make one’s way into ruins of Siena ( 7)

17 Turning point could be Tuesday? ( 3- 2,4)

18 Old party animal backing musical text ( 8)

19 Boor, escaping terrible agoraphobia, has difficulty swallowing ( 7)

21 A sharper flavour of port ( 7)

22/ 10 Burns’ assistant easily nails two rhymes ( 6,8)

24/ 6 Factory gates made from mechanism with rivet ( 5,8)

26 Returning carcinoid occasionally found in Andean civilisation ( 4)

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