CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Paddies’ shaving gear (6)

4 Nationalists, perhaps, toss chit away (8)

9 Lacking central ring, plunged in feet first (6)

10 Instruct class to show evidence of previous misdeeds (4,4)

12 Country where elements are OK (5) 13 Blister round front teeth? Put in freezer (4,5) 14 Gorge on cheese (7)

15 Nothing new found in 26 – return for exchange (4)

19 Frank, perhaps, about losing class in Czech city (4)

21 Gold cup child presents to fictional heroine (7)

24 Difficult journey to get computer part (4,5) 26 Takes to uncle’s insignificant pieces (5) 27 Military intelligence issues funds to travellers (8)

28 Filter out stress (6) 29 Dick may lean towards wealthiest people (4,4)

30 Man comes in to provide care when story’s

finished (3,3)

DOWN

1 Team put the boot into subordinate partner (8)

2 Better not be driver sinking to here! (8) 3 Flirt heard pin drop about first love (9) 5 Wine poured out from mocha bliss (7) 6 Weeping heard in ranks (5)

7 It’s proverbially hard performing easy answer to 16 (4-2)

8 Hot brown river (6) 11 Competitive runner trimmed top off maple (4)

16 Bungled piece of mending when having a rough time (1,3,5)

17 Swimmer who may blow while few inhale feverishly without drug (3,5)

18 Spring over edition that’s spiced up (8)

20 I ate sop, muddled by drugs (7)

21 Mixed school managed to avoid initial publicity (4)

22 Bell that’s all but a fantasy (6)

23 It’s very sad to smoke when returning to lead toddler (6)

25 Depict learner with slow speech (5)