WEEKEND CROSSWORD
Dear Reader,
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic we are suspending competition entries for all our prize crosswords.
Puzzles will continue to appear as normal but no entries will be accepted or prizes given.
We hope to return to normal as soon as possible.
The solution to this week’s cryptic crossword will appear next Saturday as usual.
Stay safe!
Joy Yates, Editorial Director
ACROSS
1 Man has him confused (6)
4 & 9 Round with another man inspecting work done at excavation on the surface (4-4,6)
10 Cook apple and fry stick insect with it (8)
12 Bone reported in undercut of beef (5)
13 Practical joke having prize share returned (5,4)
14 Irritate brother or sister inside being ludicrous (7)
15 How partners in three-legged race finished neck and neck (4)
19 Some sideshow appeared in middle of month (4)
21 Journalist meandered first, having been injured (7)
24 One can go no faster than this (4-5)
26 Singer Bill drops in (5)
27 Motor outside of ship (8)
28 Old scholar found stall in corner (6)
29 Revised rate certain to produce riches (8)
30 Design made by extraterrestrial
on heavenly body (6)
DOWN
1 One of the domestic hearths to be kept burning in song (4-4)
2 Foolish advice to over-eager carer (8)
3 How children might be made to retire (4,2,3)
5, 23 & 25 How organists act with great energy (4,3,3,3,5)
6 A couple of pence in New York for absorbent cloth! (5)
7 Aim for a high point (6)
8 Not a harpist injuring insect (6)
11 Source of notes with nothing in order (4)
16 Just as talkative, say, having a double meaning (9)
17 Something extra caught out of harmful habit (8)
18 Sticking the lady in a depressed area (8)
20 Clipper making off with the fleece? (7)
21 Walk in the water, having raised anchor, we hear (4)
22 A delivery vehicle at sea (6)
23 &25See5