The Scotsman

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- ROS SHERARD

Across

1 Creatures flying upside down to attack with

knife (4)

3 Likely to come to grief with ice (2,3,5)

10 On Sunday, sound the bell for tea, it's said,

at prehistori­c earthworks (4,5)

11 Lord has selection of drinks ready (5)

12 Girl heard to be at left centre (5)

13 Align a line from the east (8)

15 Got stuck in to help late students get

indication of learning status (1-6)

17 Piles on trouble for Greek character (7)

19 I'm no cad, travelling round, travelling round

(7)

21 Public liability gets financial inspection with

acclaim (7)

22 Worker is quick to secure traditiona­l

betrothal (8)

24 Girl came back holding one kind of mat (5)

27 It's not as planned in Birmingham area (5)

28 Goddess tried a hop unsuccessf­ully (9)

29 Church official to conduct funeral, they say,

with wine (10)

30 Experience­d further education at

uttermost limit (4)

Down

1 and 26 Take railway from frontier with

luggage that's not easy to classify (10,4)

2 Cask's found in North African city (5)

4 Contracts for weapon running from one

extreme to the other (7)

5 Malevolent house placed on boundary

crossing (7)

6 Boy or girl may run out to location of wine (5)

7 Dog end with gutted end cut short (9)

8 Regularly spawned in dunes (4)

9 Camp made a difference (8)

14 Part payment for arrangemen­t of Lent

matins (10)

16 Meat tasted almost like roasted (9)

18 Break's warmed by brief impression (8)

20 Had race to change for dumb show (7)

21 Encouragem­ent or approval given to dear

French repairer (7)

23 He gives money to put on alternativ­e (5)

25 Have ambition to cut top off steeple (5)

26 see 1

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