For the love of words

A crossword to put your mind to.

Across

1 Potential 15 30 – Kiwis throw out 13,000 tonnes of these every year (9) 6 Originally described the sound of a bowstring after an arrow's been fired (5) 9 A slogan of non-violent protest coined by Allen Ginsberg (6,5) 10 A user interface such as Windows (3) 11 The subject of the End of Life Choices Act (10) 12 Incline towards, or nurse (4) 14 A parody (usually humorous) (5) 16 An official who can invalidate something (9) 18 “Wide-body” aircraft (especially Boeing 747s) (5,4) 21 “With ___ all sorrows are less” (Sancho Panza) – yet Kiwis throw out 15,000 tonnes every year as 15 30! (5) 23 A shelled marine mollusc, or a dollar bill in the US (4) 25 How we can turn some of our 15 30 into fertiliser (10) 28 A favourite Kiwi pastime – home improvements (3) 29 Renovation – also (UK historical) applied to the reign of Charles II (11) 30 See 15 Down 31 Deficits, as may occur after panic buying (9)

Down

1 People who use weights to improve fitness – or people who steal from shops! (7) 2 A lounge (even when not in the place described) (5,4) 3 A form of theatre derived from the Italian word for “work” (5) 4 To make something comprehensible (7) 5 Where logs and lumber are dressed (7) 6 An invention that made car and bicycle rides a lot more comfortable (4) 7/8 A 28 tool for cutting stone and metal (5,7) 13 “An arm and a leg” ? No, just one of them (4) 15/30 Scraps left from meal preparation, or that have spoiled (4,5) 17 Enumerating; making a list of (9) 18 A bird that appears in “The Magician's Nephew” as “the first joke in Narnia” (7) 19 Conceited and self-centred people (7) 20 City in northern Japan that hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics (7) 22 Marine mammals (known in Kenya as the “Queens of the Sea”) (7) 24 A bottomless gulf – metaphorically, depravity or Hell (5) 26 A literal angle, or metaphorical point of view (5) 27 “I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a ___” – Joyce Kilmer (4)