CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Six agitate like he-men (6) 4 Groups of dogs outside bay wildly for rewards (8) 9 Talk about an African country (5) 10 A term in Shakespeare for “grinding machine” (5,4) 11 Disallow building support for a bluegrass musician (8) 12 Ted keeps chopper I rolled down the tarmac (6) 14 Beginning of New Age--it’s a gas (4) 15 Manages to get grand in closing scenes (8) 19 Ridicule Ironside crudely (8) 20 Ocean’s hue observed in seaquake (4) 23 In Z, the surprising climax (6) 25 Chisel wooden bench with a Great Lakes tribe (8) 27 Depressing mating game involving sick leer (9) 28 Houston ballplayer, a bad sort (5) 29 Satisfactory, until outlay of money (8) 30 Baby bear embraces her chubby angel (6) DOWN

1 Hobo going back through had no bag available (8) 2 Legendary outlaw hobo Rodin sculpted? (5,4) 3 Chaney put on famous tower’s site (6) 5 Dizzy ain’t opposed (4) 6 Salt found inside simple sea creature (8) 7 Hot food that sounds like it’s cold (5) 8 Three-dimensional shapes, thus, with tops (6) 10 Slightest intelligence about secret agents (8) 13 Carelessly gash sole in footwear (8) 16 Prophet having quest set apart (9) 17 Strangely terraced, like the surface of the moon (8) 18 Search following feline alongside a burial chamber (8) 21 Vocally halts some Europeans (6) 22 Spanish whip’s big impact (6) 24 Relative from England’s capital in French city (5) 26 Director of Lawrence of Arabia having very little fat (4)