CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Roughly separated, a party means to get to Oz (7)

5 Ask curiously about tin one going back home to Auntie Em and Uncle Henry (6)

8 Pulls in or pulls off (5,2) 9 Like a city of Oz, in ephemeral dusk (7)

11 Oz baddie with impatient craving (5)

12 Traveller in Oz cowers, troubled about conveyance (9) 13 Twice as far as traveller in Oz (4) 14 Stood in favour of interrupting function (6)

19 Give lots of money to Cher in Nuts (6)

20 Oz character stretchin’ the truth, you might say (4)

24 Eat with family and small people in Oz (9)

26 Taking right, follow path (5) 27 New brain that hurts polychromatic sight (7) 28 Strange mood captured by pale Oz character (7)

29 Oz character’s one last letter found in city district (6) 30 Peculiar door next to your heroine in Oz (7)

DOWN

1 Tossed high chair in the sound (6)

2 Tell judge about train above street level (6) 3 Tasteful Neptune’s Kingdom returned with The Jerk (9) 4 Counterpart to pope is reformed (8)

5 Persist with reversal of time: a glimpse (4,2)

6 Error admitted by pleasant girl to her aunt and uncle (5) 7 A pearly material adorning Greek poet (8)

10 Drag leader of delinquents in front of proprietor (6) 15 Wine mixed in portion (5,4) 16 Juicer this writer put in back (6) 17 Exotic bird is in Italian city (8) 18 Funny jade wigs cut in an intricate way (8) 21 Struggle we had seen (6) 22 Corrupt French word for “rodent” (6)

23 Potter’s stuff captivating North Carolina spy novelist (6) 25 In church, a blasphemer speaks in Spanish (5)