CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Demand better performance from parliamentary figure who’s on Class A drug (5,3,4)

9 Criticise champion with a solution for everything (7)

10 Lie uncomfortably in creel (7)

11 Plot horrific capture of god (4)

12 About 49 years an nimble as a monkey (5)

13 Regularly sent down from top school (4)

16 Bemuse when no number’s to add (7)

17 Struggle with first bites of unripe fruit (7)

18 Where singer may shatter glass, it’s said, far from land (4,3)

21 Toddler has minute drink (4,3)

23 and 24 Unsavoury money to be made with fashionable bakery item (9)

25 Initially energetic enthusiast comes back to adjust and correct instrument, say (4)

28 Melodramatise a covert plan (7)

29 Beside a lengthy road (7)

30 “Rotten gipsy” being confused with first estimate is an example of pigeon-holing (12)

DOWN

2 Organised POW guard for SE Asian city (7)

3 Company about to reveal source of drug (4)

4 Deployed as great method of riot control (7)

5 Stick this in on either side of pate, originally (7)

6 Hoarse, I hear, with cough (4)

7 Draw attention to small lead? (5,2)

8 Check on religious clothing will mean returning profit to source (12)

9 Pretend the place may cause real-time embarrassment (3,2,3,4)

14 and 15 Covering for woodwork leads to disappearance of suffering in good time (5,5)

19 Note instrument Americans use to develop muscle (7)

20 Chosen child comes to a deep place (7)

21 Detective finds indication of a horse being put in pie (7)

22 Grunted while performing swimming stroke (7) 26 and

27 Cornet emitted healthy smell by proxy (4-4)