CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sad Sack’s barrel (4) 3 Standing between two streets, Archie is most uptight (10) 9 After a while, Mr. Capp’s sideways (7) 11 Stormy night’s beginning penned by Peanuts character (7) 12 Confess about Broom Hilda, for example, making changes (9) 13 Small and yellow dog in a comic (5) 14 Girl’s name in great wizard’s place (6) 15 Ruffled, Dilbert’s shown anger (8) 19 Comic strip testing site aboard ship (3,5) 21 Iraqi ruler once covered by Charles Addams (6) 24 Sluggo’s associate can degenerate in New York (5) 26 A large roll, one in BC, launched as a projectile? (9) 27 Wager about limp item cherished by Linus (7) 28 Active buff in Momma’s state (7) 29 Gore disturbed; so’s Blondie (10) 30 Individuals in Doonesbury (4)

DOWN

1 Heavenly Alice lets loose (9) 2 Smart about alien background (7) 4 Pair of kids in narrative movie with sound (6) 5 People speaking wildly about silver destroyers (8) 6 Nothing in beer ingredient baskets (5) 7 Elk’s first broken antler, with no end (7) 8 Shabby-looking attorney after trial’s beginning (5) 10 Regarding cedar’s first branch to shinny up again (7) 16 Close in, catching ocean mammal in cold water (3,4) 17 US party members scared Tom off (9) 18 Bent-over dancing not allowed (8) 20 Chaney joke on love in the distant past (4,3) 22 Leave the coach, and fall behind detective (7) 23 Priests straddling fifty beasts of burden (6) 24 Catch old British VIP (5) 25 Fine collected by athletic club Ed joined (5)