Cryptic Crossword

Across

1 Extended period of rest at the end of the day (3,5,4)

9 In a short month, workers have little time to increase (7)

10 It's time to learn, at the end, about going on for ever (7)

11 Have a large number of items for sale at auction (4)

12 Find a comfortable place to tie up, in the main (5)

13 Is it the flower of the Irish Republic? (4)

16 Frames used right away by those who work the land (7)

17 Do pairs on the green have to be twice as good? (7)

18 Tramples all over a close relative (4-3)

21 Introduce one before having to resist (7)

23 Exploit action on a legal transaction (4)

24 Some of the best raw materials can be the last resort (5)

25 Is upset about the sharing out of gratuities (4)

28 Old term, at the end, was upset at going to great lengths (7)

29 Has dinner a home to deal with corrosion (3,4)

30 Everyone gets involved, going at full throttle (3,7,2)

Down

2 A low open boat can carry less

cargo (7)

3 New runner-up had to want

something (4)

4 Comes together for a Highland

event (7)

5 Was tarted up, at the end, to

deal with illness (7)

6 An old writer was in the clear (4)

7 Enlarge new role for a senior officer (7)

8 May leave with speed, with everyone involved (3,7,2)

9 Without warning (3,2,1,6)

14 Left in one direction, to the lowest degree (5)

16 Was a senior officer very good, in short? (5)

19 Choose an artist to portray an ancient complex (7)

20 Heavyweight came back, but not to get close (3,4)

21 Put a former pupil back with an inactive substance (7)

22 Some French people danced in the city (7)

26 Note a long line to inform on others (4)

27 Some work by engravers can be quite fetching (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Cosmonaut, 6 Slang, 9 Round, 10 Ownership, 11 Bats in the belfry, 13 Needless, 14 Physio, 16 Noodle, 18 Brackish, 21 Like a dog’s dinner, 23 Visual aid, 25 Orbit, 26 Since, 27 Thankless.

DOWN: 1 Carob, 2 Shuttlecock, 3 Old Bill, 4 Amortise, 5 Tender, 6 Screech, 7 Aah, 8 Gypsy moth, 12 Fashionable, 13 Nine lives, 15 Presidia, 17 Leakage, 19 Chinook, 20 Cobalt, 22 Rates, 24 Sun.

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