CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Loveliness, almost, found in Invernessshire town (6) 4 Revolution in Nairn fort doesn’t begin at bridge in 20 (8) 9 Cruden’s changed direction with new plan to become smaller (6) 10 Prang Strome ferry as wavelength is measured (8) 12 Aberdeen clan’s sharp, it’s said (5) 13 Former Edinburgh power station carries public school (4,5) 14 Don’t do what you’re told and boy dies horribly (7) 15 What town can hold a candle to this one in Caithness? (4) 19 English county known in Scotland (4) 21 Naturally dehydrated endlessly in Lanarkshire town (7) 24 Boa freely tossed around in Stirlingshire town (9) 26 Scots cap Father’s taken to city in Florida (5) 27 She is bridged by Loch Tulla but falls on Loch Maree (8) 28 Penetrate origin of Scots name (6) 29 His Fife town can represent part of reward (2,6) 30 Bypass halfway hostel that’s not empty in

north-east wilderness (6)

DOWN

1 Scots poet’s identity finally borne in Rutherglen, Thurso or Angus (8) 2 Village on the West Highland Way that lies hard up against Loch Lomond (8) 3 One may be entering beyond one’s private compartment in town of Dumfries and Galloway (9) 5 New ref starts right, gets trashed, in Cradle of the Royal Stewarts (7) 6 Head off from cols like idiots (5) 7 Don’t use Edinburgh airport – change character and start working (4,2) 8 The land that lies between opposition parties (2-4) 11 Scout catches first eel in salmon river (4) 16 Step into vehicles at state hospital town (9) 17 Weep over sacred word and graphic form on this firth (8) 18 Showing moral decline from ten years of not being heartless (8) 20 Say roughly covered by regular movement of water in this region (7) 21 Where waters meet, where brae goes down (4) 22 Lewis community has places to drink in, accommodating 27 and Albert (6) 23 Is it a crime to throw in old English kingdom? (6) 25 Like a Scottish sea-loch that’s offspring of Jordan (5)