CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1/ 25 Extremely broad Taiwanese code broken around start of hostilities ( 4,2,3,5)

4 Starts to become annoying and extremely disappointed bets are arranged but never settled ( 3,5)

9 Statesman of gravity and welcome ( 6)

10 Go at quitting difficult anthropology – a real sleep- inducer ( 8)

12 Where to find a meal, no effort required ( 2,1,5)

13 A quick look and close around five, initially mid- shift ( 6)

15 See 5Dn

16 Lost close to home, kiosks loved madly in Solzhenitsyn’s birthplace ( 10)

19 Plastic in cattle found in former 24Dn ( 10)

20 See 22Dn

23 Get comfy with quality street developer? ( 6)

25 See 1Ac

27 Bravo rig an umbilical part of plant ( 8)

28 Incredibly remote object in the sky ( 6)

29 Ran through week- end in gutter – leads to early death ( 8)

30 Seasonal lift for Glenshee? ( 3,3)

DOWN

1 Put rug on to heartless woman in former 24Dn ( 7)

2 Tailor and Burton for former 24Dn ( 9)

3/ 17/ 18 Report start of golf match. Quidditch? That’s another thing entirely ( 1,5,9,4,4)

5/ 15 A great message in an initial hit of perfume ( 1,3,4)

6 District railways have quick cut- off ( 3,5)

7 Former 24Dn very loud after bar opens ( 5)

8 Seal in human form almost, rank outsiders in former 24Dn ( 7)

11 Russian agreement on fabricating kilts on isolated island ( 2,5)

14 Supports lip- remodelling treatment, at last covered by NHS ( 7)

17 See 3Dn

18 See 3Dn

19 Former 24Dn sinks or swims ( 7)

21 French investment to revive former 24Dn ( 7)

22/ 20 To search widely for lead character in film set in East Korea, oddly ( 2,4,4)

24 Quiet anger of big horse ( 5)

26 Former 24Dn is a particularly fine example, we hear ( 4)