CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Offhand, exactly similar to the one over there (4,4,4)

9 Prisoner finds concealed pit in hollow (7) 10 Let these past events be put aside to be themselves (7)

11 Born and died in poverty (4)

12 Shell in a creel appeared (5)

13 Where money can be found up to now (4) 16 Mend its remarkable fixed attitude (7) 17 See, say, Iowa islands (7)

18 Monk backing ruler in the country (7) 21 Stroke of luck in western TV programme (7) 23 Dislike being out of the heat (4) 24 Number one girl (5)

25 Instrument for this major leader of marching band (4) 28 A question provided hesitantly on rock containing water (7)

29 Brown, dark sort of mug (7)

30 Drink excessively and cause a smash? (3,3,6)

DOWN

2 Inside thump teenagers, very many! (7)

3 Observe shoot (4)

4 Inside old work’s rough (7)

5 Grab me violently, love, during trade ban (7) 6 and 7 Nothing he is arranging that’s capable of operating at a relatively strong voltage (4-7)

8 Not easy to understand like a dirty pond (2,5,2,3)

9 22 and 26 Is unable to understand which end is which (4,4,4,3,4,2,2)

14 Chance remark by a team (5)

15 Look around in river in France (5)

19 Only a little to munch in error (3,4) 20 Emperor performing within 31 days (7) 21 Two cleaning vessels put together to make third one (7) 22 and 26 See 9 down

27 Biting insect’s biting flavour had been upset (4)