Harpy's Weekend Crossword

Across

1. & 23. Across. Wary, redolent, yet disrupted and assassinated (6)

4. The forerunner of romance stories (8)

9. Fibrous tissue beginning to decay in joint (6)

10. Obese guide, terribly weary (8)

12. Uncontrollable emotion stirred up this year (8)

13. Place glue to bottom of material to make crayon (6)

15. Right to help in attack (4)

16. Communist leader with guns to tame disturbance (3,3-4)

19. Help one man to become exceptional (10)

20. Border on which we are ill at ease (4)

23. See 1.Across (6) 25. Peculiar play, Act 1 mixed up (8)

27. Metal obtained from fruit containing a metal (8)

28. Sensitive proposal (6)

29. Teach group to make model railway (5,3)

30. Security in place beside border (6)

Down

1. Onlooker caught in middle of the war in mix-up (7)

2. Movement at ground level getting a great victory (9)

3. Wears down hesitation with poems (6)

5. Number of animals housed initially by flood survivor (4)

6. Times are changing for Arab lands (8)

7. Getting mock, being tense about name (5)

8. Warning in a left-wing flyer (3,4)

11. Strange dialect in fortress (7)

14. The last disturbed by furtive behaviour (7)

17. Dundee CID could be in two minds (9)

18. Joker with trick taking in the press, TV, etc. (8)

19. Trap ape playing at a low wall (7)

21. Increase in some integral neckwear returned (7)

22. Attraction of a quiet ringing of bells (6)

24. Performance in which DA makes enclosure for sheep (5)

26. Starts to cut under bedrock encountering solid (4)