CRYPTIC

Across

1 Enjoy the pickles (6) 4 You will know when you’ve got it (8) 9 Chaps after a gnu perhaps are armed (6) 10 Expires broken by a wager and disease (8) 12 Slaughter in the service area (8) 13 All for making a sort of arrangement (6) 15 He floated a company to avoid liquidation (4) 16 Sort of mistake that could make one late (5,5) 19 Sly-looking chap (7,3) 20 Account I’d terminated – sharpish! (4) 23 Good man in a new role looking after horses (6) 25 I leave an order for artillery (8) 27 One means of making a garden attractive (8) 28 The story of Achilles’ heel? (6) 29 Old Sally Brown (8) 30 Back at sea (6)

Down

1 Troops didn’t finish the course (7) 2 It involves places and composition (9) 3 Notice saying ‘Playground Equipment’ (6) 5 Big lake up country (4) 6 Rose, a lovely girl in red (8) 7 Send down under (5) 8 Tell-tale governor (7) 11 Put some notes in order? (7) 14 A sailor scowls about Herculean tasks (7) 17 Scattered once and never to get together again (9) 18 It will come to the rescue, if able to anyhow (8) 19 A crop is knocked flat (7) 21 Doctor needs transfer to a city of China (7) 22 Listen out for bays (6) 24 Subject of article on me (5) 26 A state of pure chaos (4)