CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Tipped as décor, have me mend it (11) 6. A particle one takes on (3) 8. Get up a shaft excavated from below (5) 10. Does paint around Oz and NZ (9) 11. Noah, first on his craft to be an informer (4) 12. Badly damaged ship, crew of which join the king (5) 13. It may be executed in water colour (8) 16. Some Egyptians she confused with 25 (7) 17. The sort that’s cast in the same kind of role (4) 18. Betting price not evens (4) 19. Traveller is on the housetop for a telling-off (7) 21. Streams that half turn silver (8) 23. Statuette for an oversize auto (5) 26. Cheese one used in greater part of the bread (4) 27. Physicality brings about slim mania (9) 28. Hindu god brought rain around Delhi capital (5) 29. A metal can (3) 30. He’s late: one bar is disturbed: see how much drink he’s had (11)

DOWN

1. Fit to be driven, or why do tar like this? (10) 2. Set of bells on a pole where Beijing players get changed? (7,8) 3. A ground squirrel that met rake unexpectedly (7) 4. The time being used in motion on ceremonials (5) 5. Draws step CID might take (7) 6. When country got to be selfgoverning deny panic ended about the East (12,3) 7. It smells, and one’s upset about it (4) 9. Every other starch in a pouch (3) 13. Church feature that’s expensive to the French (7) 14. Women fighting will almost astonish son head-to-tail (7) 15. Trade is set out to discourse (10) 19. Fruit stalks may harbour nothing less by 5th October (7) 20. State if a lord is wrong (7) 22. Going from Ascot to the opera (5) 24. Wrongdoing is up to man, finally (3) 25. Prohibit last of fat, and diet (4)