THE CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Coastal defence that is soon liquidated? (10) 6 Beat in a round of golf` (4) 10 Withdraw permission (5) 11 Pledge given by senator is broken (9) 12 A run caused by panic in the stock market perhaps (8) 13 A rug’s maybe the answer to icing (5)

15 Just means a stretch of cut turf (7)

17 Examine a boy that’s backward - a disgrace (7) 19 Gaunt-looking writer (7) 21 Unusually precise drills (7) 22 We hear forty of the Romans do better (5) 24 To create a stir, try some skill (8) 27 Scattered once and never to get together again (9) 28 Determined to have money in retirement (3,2)

29 At last he starts to warm up (4)

30 Anger badly out of place, generally speaking (2,3,5)

Down

1 and 14 Down: Fine people give heartfelt oaths (4,2,3,5)

2 The object wasn’t far from causing an accident (4,5)

3 Top colour (5)

4 He plays havoc when in good form (7)

5 Sounds like more work for the tenants (7)

7 Telling stories in bed? (5)

8 Maybe late singer’s one with wide range of skills? (10) 9 What gun runners take part in? (4,4)

14 See 1 Down

16 Where strain will cause a parting (4,4)

18 Painter who gives orders? (9)

20 Fabrics to be sold per yard perhaps (7)

21 Be nice to a dog and a bird for example (7)

23 Come out with me again and have a drink (5) 25 Flapping sails of hemp fibre (5)

26 Unrepeatable start of fairy story (4)

Across

1 Precedence on the road (5,2,3)

6 Sudden misfortune (4) 10 Complete successfully (5) 11 Diocese’s principal church (9)

12 Unsafe (8)

13 Years of age 13-19 (5) 15 Opening (7)

17 Suffer from heat (7) 19 Drawn (7)

21 Illness (7)

22 Flooded (5)

24 Span of existence (8) 27 An intermediary (9) 28 Staff of office (5) 29 Secluded place (4)

30 Be on one’s way (4,6)

Down

1 To sway (4)

2 Basic training in subject (9)

3 Strained (5)

4 True (7)

5 Suitability (7)

7 Substantial (5)

8 US money market (4,6) 9 Plumage (8)

14 Robber of road travellers (10)

16 Soon (2,1,5)

18 Emotionally wounding (9) 20 Predicament (7) 21 Argument in justification (7) 23 Reproduction of sound (5)

25 Rome’s river (5)

26 Burden (4)