CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Transvestite gets angry with tall boy (5-7) 9 US pairs up with historical European state (7) 10 Racing car may get on one’s nerves at halftime (7) 11 Neaten DIY mess at end of project (4) 12 and 13 Smooth singer taking fruity beverage by lake (5,4) 16 Inept unedifying landing on planet (7) 17 Display excellence as I then broadcast (5,2) 18 Turns setting of toaster (7) 21 Bleep about being sick with plunder (7) 23 Bar planet from ... (4) 24 ... having pet pup on another planet while ... (5) 25 ... man in the street takes five, seeing Jupiter (4) 28 Request to withhold news that daughter could become aware of (1-6) 29 Chooses not to be obliged to spout rubbish (4,3) 30 Weigh into story about jar and smashed chest (4,3,5)

DOWN

2 Run out international political party in muster (5,2) 3 Ceremonial band used by crack force at home (4) 4 Expert marksman with deficient vision? (7) 5 English man shouts orders, perhaps, as gets on board (7) 6 Put one’s name to drawing first couple rejected (4) 7 Artist to put up with being in squalid room (7) 8 Corporal punishment for rugby nations with top rank (3,2,3,4) 9 I left sufferer with medication in about a year of over-the-counter treatment (6,6) 14 Radio band we listen to is painful (5) 15 Faces up to having slid down with a bump (5) 19 Evict from carriage (4,3) 20 Victory in strait makes one able to pay one’s debts (7) 21 Look carefully over cash machine at Canadian mountain (7) 22 Lax tool used to chop up salamander (7) 26 Does he make bow in rank? (4) 27 Cats climb with Polly, for example (4)