The Herald Cryptic Puzzle

Cryptic No. 846

ACROSS

1. Saying to cook, “Mash poi around edge of rim” (8) 5. Type of mongrel: tail with unlimited lice (6) 10. Portuguese saint takes fifty-five shots (5) 11. Omen: prism scattered fruit (9) 12. Hot-head in club with turtle shell and knife (7) 13. Sticky stuff around lettuce: a sugar (7) 14. Follow virgin carrying Jesuit’s heart (6) 15. Ecology tips: recycled steel for grommets (7) 18. Courses in middle of scenic forest (7) 21. Wet grain mixture around Third World yard (6) 24. Calls for most of ammo in “Heavenly Bodies” (7) 26. Phyllis’s omelet: somewhat flexible (7) 27. Rod, lift about half the cash from block (9) 28. Lounges, I hear, for heroes (5) 29. Aches from time at north pole (6) 30. Arranged fare Eddy paid (8)

DOWN

1. Association: union and Maine don (6) 2. Disaster: head office pest seized top accounts (9) 3. They dig enthusiastic supporters (7) 4. Preeminent MP rues changing point (7) 6. True bit: punk makes forced payment (7) 7. Place of Christian theology in dance (5) 8. Boil down to convention, retreat and core of misery (8) 9. A purge disrupted city (6) 16. Oddly holy gent, around Ontario capital, making study of cultures (9) 17. Possibly fine, with one hand behind one’s back, holding book (8) 19. Wear rose slip and ring in “Stylish” (7) 20. Frame semi-gray strut (6) 21. Repaired elm seat from former British colony (7) 22. Rougher Regina, for example, wharf (7) 23. Detected spy around Nova Scotia, first day (6) 25. Mark song “for her” (5)