CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Throws curd pastie in slapstick feature (7,3) 6 It’s sensible to listen to unknown quantities (4) 10 Handicaps discovered when working backwards (9) 11 Lofty Athenian? (5) 12 Landed families change party allegiance with tact (6) 13 Reporters show hesitation with iron (7) 15 He lies low, we hear – a fault in Indian city (9) 18 Homeric king one found in Silver Cross, perhaps (5) 19 Scots go south in mobs (5) 21 Duke, for example gets right into bog to see giant fronds (5,4) 23 Friend finds fortune as sailor (7) 24 Set cap freely at appearance (6) 27 Brose is well mixed but not drunk (5) 28 She’s getting married – in good health – in prison (9) 29 Assaulted by 1, you might say, in black and white (4) 30 Unfortunately misses role in minimalistic stance (4,2,4) DOWN 1 System of symbols used for original comic poem (4) 2 Announce condition (5) 3 Bar rite upset by judge (7) 4 False front is unreliable (5) 5 Fashionable drink taken, not paying attention, with weak effect (9) 7 During trial in primary education showed guts (9) 8 Steep fall established enveloping fish and fellows (10) 9 Put on a face and were friends again (4,2) 14 The pheasants have taken wing – we’re rumbled! (3,5,2) 16 Brown horse goes to where it lives in English town (9) 17 Garden feeding station for dabbler it enchants (4,5) 20 Heads of special unit laugh at attempt to be passionate (6) 22 Drink like animals with animals in loose folds (7) 24 Musical’s heroine’s lost her head in singing solos (5) 25 Massacre does reveal belief system (5) 26 Wild berry said to be long awaited (4)