CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cheat to start puzzle (8) 5 Player is wearing tight boot (6) 9 Inherit clubs with mixed emotion (4,4)

10 Take shells from water, anxious, and see fish (6)

12 Bill in close-fitting jacket for performance (6,3) 13 Floridian city monkey caught? (5)

14 Release without charge (4) 16 Glorious under the Linden tree? (7)

19 City subordinate to address filth in lucre? (7)

21 Have quick look in either direction (4)

24 United supporters returned in chaos (5)

25 Cheerfully irresponsible friends retired in good spirits (4-5) 27 Ambassador blocks Conservative plan (6)

28 Not fair when superior virtually eclipses career (8)

29 Hate exam following low grades (6)

30 Singer’s very nearly changed name (4,4)

DOWN

1 Scoundrel in American intelligence finds bug (6) 2 Cloud and rain, finally –

I’m taking public transport (6)

3 Four, five, all regularly seen in college (5) 4 Compound tax for dummies? (7) 6 Rabbit led astray where food is put out (4,5)

7 Not really a problem one can sleep on? (8)

8 Adolescent ate green bananas (8) 11 Love but no husband for this regretful lady (4) 15 Looking embarrassed, protects Maoists (3,6)

17 Mean 50s lout shut away (8) 18 Shoot a troublemaker in European city (8) 20 Climber came up (4) 21 Couple crossing river that is in grassland (7)

22 Eating too much, mole covered in pimples (6)

23 Dragon, mostly green, captured by Welshman (6)

26 Bird over new atomic plant (5)