QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 In general (2,3,5) 6 A long time (4) 10 Improbable account (5) 11 Put an end to (9) 12 Sudden flight in panic (8) 13 Courage (5) 15 Form of parallelogram (7) 17 Betrayer (7) 19 A good-for-nothing (7) 21 A level in a hierarchy (7) 22 Book’s promotional publicity (5) 24 Flowering climbing shrub (8) 27 A flower-head vegetable (9) 28 Ill-defined (5) 29 Variety of cabbage (4) 30 Alert (2,4,4)

DOWN 1 Enthusiast (4) 2 Large long-winged seabird (9) 3 Strongly desired goal (5) 4 Ingenuous (7) 5 Item of clothing (7) 7 A tropical American fruit (5) 8 Oppressively hot (10) 9 Confused mixture (8) 14 Find nothing (4,1,5) 16 Without a saddle (8) 18 A reprimand (7-2) 20 The inside facts (7) 21 Oriental (7) 23 Up to the time of (5) 25 Underside of projecting roof (5) 26 Fresh information (4)