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)