The National (Scotland)

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Rights affected by these measures (6)

4 Samurai PM a cad, partly recalling a fungus (8)

9 Leaders of American mafia offered extra bed with a single cell (6)

10/19D Spring beyond bits set out, a long way from its prime (4,4,3,4)

12 King George beheaded woodsmen and some tennis players (8)

13/14 Strapping? Easy tasks in force six gusts (6,7)

15 See 25

16 Wild rover, a timid protector of Central Highlands, acts incautious­ly (4-6)

19 Govan poet’s creamy knives and forks have sticky ends missing (4,6)

20 Occasional­ly burn end brought up (4)

23 Leo possibly completed register (4,2)

25/15 Having kicked heroin, methadone compound to encroach on spineless creature (8,4)

27 Last of the anaestheti­sts could add colour (1,7)

28 A logic-based belief in God is made in error (1,5)

29 Call after giving up seat? That’s shocking! (8)

30 From the right, theorems embraced by spell-binding German (6)

DOWN

1/21 Large word games became 19Ac’s work (7,7)

2 Curious curator finds Galilean moon in Argentinia­n city (3,6)

3 See 11

5/22 A feeble grasp on work of 19Ac (1,3,6)

6 Apartment in Jordanian capital having left initial maintenanc­e work of 19Ac (1,4,3)

7 Terrible pain over nothing, used on works by 19Ac (5)

8/26 Get spray gun to make 19Ac’s work (1,6,4)

11/3 Foot soldier with addictions is 19Ac’s work (7,6)

14 See 13 Across

17 Damage on mid-jump, following independen­t instrument of 19Ac (9)

18 Scout leaders with eraser with which to clean up (8)

19 See 10 Across

21 See 1

22 See 5

24 Work of 19Ac describing for you significan­t bus terminals (5)

26 See 8

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