THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Stick together, he being heart-encompassed (6) 9 Dropped eggs when dual vote subverted (8) 10 Jesters' ability to reason and act (4) 11 Exaggerates the position of American governors (10) 12 Initially, gold is layered thinly for this (4) 13 A bad state to come to via attractive route through the mountains (6,4) 17 The sound of jive can reduce one to hobbling (4) 18 A girl of Roman extraction (5) 19 Unrefined female mad with lust (4) 21 Invitation to invest in the view – we follow it! (10) 23 Failed to connect, it's said in bad visibility (4) 24 Terrifying experience that heightens level of shock (4-6) 28 A piece of paper detailing your error ? (4) 29 You may find night-fliers hanging about in them (8) 30 Europeans who live on turnips? (6)

DOWN

1 Limit boy breached to achieve such agility in movements (8) 2 Digs for convalescents ? (3-7) 3 Is it the reward that makes men creep so ? (10) 4 Do the French give state benefit? (4) 5 Crawler's stops for the lost weekend? (4) 6 Divinity graduate leaving a letter for the priest (4) Likes it better without the first page one speaks of (6) 14 Big Bird: "Apologies-getting a late start" (5) 15 Do wrong the hard way ? (10) 16 History teacher who is a real expert? (10) 20 Lacking qualities to go without clothes (8) 22 Are in debt, but managed to bring up the children (6) 25 A collar that's not well finished, by the sound of it (4) 26 Hard cover for returning foreign money (4) 27 It's worn to order, perhaps (4)