Cryptic Crossword
Across
1 Start to air possibilities for
Italian restaurants (10)
6 Hairstyle for a nonconformist?
(4)
10 Reserve instruction to police
(4,5)
11 Propel along Tweed river (5) 12 Pays for terraces (6)
13 Has consequences for doings
of mischievous child (7)
15 Ramming central term in
constitutes interference (9) 18 Quiet anger in Ayr, for
instance (5)
19 Those dogs were admittedly
soaked (5)
21 Not answering question
because perishing (7,2)
23 Less strong if aren't mixed (7) 24 Those who make formal proposals are shakers' associates (6) 27 Prisoner meets old friend in
POW camp (5)
28 Blatantly confrontational, why substitute junction at common boundary? (9)
29 Strap used to crush fly back
(4)
30 Spice that has lost its savour
when the Derby is run (4,6) Down
1&2 Sit down and photograph
while dining (4,1,4)
3 Vanquish leopard after tiger
loses heart (7)
4 Disposes of last place encountered in travels on a donkey, say (5)
5 Irish planes fly around ruling
sea (3,6)
7 Shying away from Highland dance held on Scottish island (9)
8 Loony sovereign takes drug when being officially in charge (10)
9 Pasted over virtuosos (6)
14 Actively fighting to stay in the
lead (2,3,5)
16 The Ten Commandments, etc – patchwork delivered on mound (6,3)
17 I am fond of being
disinterested (9)
20 Senility, e.g. a lonesome decline (6)
22 Rhyming, perhaps, with opposite (7)
24 Test alien with polyphonic
composition (5)
25 Travels abroad reveal
countless Maori uprisings (5) 26 Stitched up four ways (4)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1 Nobleman, 5 Bishop, 9 Straddle, 10 Monaco, 12 Camera, 13 Ample, 16 Origin, 17 Slackers, 20 Maligned, 21 Hereto, 23 Noose, 25 Strike, 28 Inroad, 29 Speak out, 30 Gospel, 31 Greenest.
DOWN: 1 Nest, 2 Bard, 3 Endearing, 4 Allied, 6 Imola, 7 Headpieces, 8 Procession, 11 Sally, 14 Commanding, 15 Billboards, 18 Checkmate, 19 Cease, 22 Proper, 24 Erase, 26 Done, 27 Stot.
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