CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Slight person who did nearly divest herself of a garment (4,2,1,5) 9 Brewed nationalists’ wine (7) 10 Was this prince a right idiot? (7) 11 Do extreme teams join these to see the full picture? (4) 12 Tops up French boy with second glass (5) 13 Greeted when you and I took exercise (4) 16 Experience the world of marine creatures, we hear (3,4) 17 Had pain crushing water-fleas (7) 18 She was made up by this writer (7) 21 Management took on two novices for traffic blocker (7) 23 Duck when the ball falls oddly (4) 24 Casual NCO rages horribly (5) 25 University sportsperson is down (4) 28 Absorb English name – revolting! (7) 29 Summoned up memories of evil renounced when in debt (7) 30 Kate’s pie pastry given to an engineer with raw meat (5,7)

DOWN

2 Let date sort out boisterous girl (7) 3 Couple tear up accepted answer (4) 4 Active priest changing places liable to get broken (7) 5 Having gone on from side to side on left, intercepted another player (7) 6 One travelled fast in Middle Eastern country (4) 7 Vessel holding last ounce in volume (7) 8 Abandoned worker shortly before finish in sinister change of direction (4,4,4) 9 Barmy to hate dramas at play (3,2,1,6) 14 Hairpiece put on at a northern English town (5) 15 Pine away for a different fruit (5) 19 House/farm complexes make good places for shooting (7) 20 Ask hand to cook Indian dish (7) 21 Plead with odd farmhand, for example to issue Irish statement (7) 22 They think it’s this at match where a Latin sweetheart’s present (3,4) 26 Leaders call on personal experience to manage (4) 27 I leave one in charge of navigation to work out course, perhaps (4)