THE CROSSWORDS
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Timely sort of police raid (10)
6 Sign on the staff (4)
10 Recess would be pleasant about the end of
March (5)
11 It’s extremely handy for a sort of sketch (9) 12 What a fisherman may do though rattled (8) 13 One bargain appears the best possible (5) 15 Crooked dealing straightened out (7)
17 Doctor has an attempt to take on a cavalryman (7) 19 At Rio? No - maybe in Canada (7)
21 It holds its fire (7)
22 Stylish to help lift country (5)
24 They care for others (8)
27 Out of form? (9)
28 A revolting individual (5)
29 Back we come with an Irish boy maybe (4) 30 Fresh sand please for use by the sea (10)
Down
1 Break up vessels (4)
2 Oddly satirical, he may see things in black and white (9)
3 Patent feature of a hover train (5)
4 Gave voice when I damaged a tendon (7)
5 After a strike Edward was up against it (7) 7 Permission to go (5)
8 One is all in when such a portrait is completed (4,6) 9 Abandon royal dignity (8)
14 Important question of the elder offspring? (5,5) 16 Gives information which could lead to making an arrest (8)
18 Source of food designed to deter boys (6,3) 20 Fifty set out perhaps to find means of escape (7) 21 Advice on clues in anagram form (7)
23 She’s from Indianapolis (5)
25 Run it out of town (5)
26 Additional indication (4)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Fix a date for marriage (4,3,3)
6 To barter (4)
10 Excessive enthusiasm (5) 11 Musical medley (9) 12 Keep up (8)
13 A call (5)
15 Belonging to earlier times (7)
17 Attentive (7)
19 Admit (7)
21 A part (7)
22 Make suitable (5) 24 Compassion (8) 27 Compose extempore (9) 28 Improve (5)
29 Earthly paradise (4) 30 The direct opposite (10)
Down
1 Deprived of feeling (4) 2 Island borough of New
York (9)
3 Sequence (5)
4 Atone for (7)
5 Word of opposite meaning (7)
7 Articles for sale (5)
8 At very close range (5-5) 9 Memento (8)
14 Sickly sweet (10) 16 Interrogate (8)
18 Disloyal (9)
20 Meeting of a legislature (7) 21 City buried by Vesuvius 79AD (7)
23 A treeborne fruit (5) 25 Disconcert (5)
26 The chances (4)