CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Training sessions for the players? (10)

6 Bill about a land measure (4)

10 Only about five find the answer (5)

11 Don’t miss what is said to be a slogan (9) 12 Short odds? That’s not fair (3,2,3)

13 Wines blended for strength (5)

15 A certain pace produced by the position of

a jockey (7)

17 A self-effacing action? (7)

19 Free indeed, yet treated with scorn (7) 21 Stuff finished before tea perhaps (7)

22 The trouble with one hundred is moral (5) 24 Took down to a lower level? (8)

27 Be a bad actor? (9)

28 Conscious that a conflict has some

point (5)

29 They light up fishes (4)

30 He’s hoping for a successful strike (10) DOWN

1 One can never be quite sure if it’s there (4) 2 A colander won’t bear examination thus (4,5)

A warning that’s sounded later, perhaps (5) Sweet courses prepared (7)

Landlords who are characters? (7)

Old coin - sovereign perhaps (5)

Two men send unusual amounts of money (10)

It’s back in the race to beat one (8)

Doesn’t he have a night vision? (10)

Shown to have a deficit and charged (8) Lacking grace, but gentle in a different way (9)

20 Hopelessness I spread about (7)

21 They swoop down on fish, so rising with their quarries (7)

Quick-tempered holy man cutting dried grass (5)

25 Make a speech or organise tea (5)

26 Try to listen (4) 3 4 5 7 8

9 14 16 18 23

DOWN

1 Flank (4)

2 Rogue (9)

3 Boredom (5)

4 Greed for wealth (7) 5 Deeply-felt (7)

7 Tool for boring (5)

8 Tediously wordy (4-6) 9 Regarded with approval (2,6) 14 Unsentimental (4-6)

16 Writer of fiction (8) 18 Blamelessness (9)

20 Emit rays (7)

21 Excess (7)

23 Hanker after (5)

25 To decrease (5)

26 Finest (4)