CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sweet shot with son wearing black hat (10) 6 Scene right out of play (4) 9 Dealing with a bishop, exposed … (5)

10 … on the other hand, the knight gets a win (4,5) 12 Isn’t one suffering stress? (7) 13 Old region producing gas (5) 15 Date of surveillance operation leader overlooked (4,3) 17 One may be raised with pride (4,3) 19 Friendly ball?

Want a dance? (4,3) 21 Roughly fifty, having fizzy lemon in Irish town (7) 22 Caught by river, fish in basket (5) 24 Harshly criticise article about superb wonder drug (7) 27 Dramatist chooses LP in new compilation (9)

28 It’s farewell to the French as one departs a rejected European Union (5) 29 Volatile oils in storage chamber (4)

30 Sort of daily gamble crossing street with female (10)

Friday’s Puzzle Solved

DOWN

1 Object found in circle, pocketed by girl (4) 2 Reserve ten, about right for a present perhaps (4,5) 3 Great figure of Italian cast in bronze (5) 4 Country lover quiet at rising (7) 5 Eastern aquatic bird, on a lake unaffected by time (7) 7 Very good on a revolutionary instrument (5)

8 Fairy ring sat on by mischievous child (6,4) 11 A sherry in the morning? Approximately two, ultimately, downed (7) 14 Incredible payments must be made to support area, no matter what (2,3,5) 16 More or less shut up upon greeting jealous husband (7)

18 Tower in settlement above a river (9) 20 Appealing to the general public, united in London area (7) 21 Game American, a stalwart in essence (7) 23 There’s training, after ten, in the Spanish bar (5) 25 Utter confusion caused by a seaman once church is over (5) 26 Only fair? (4)