Telegraph crossword

Across

1 Sticky sugar spread (5)

4 Plates (6)

7 Oriental (7)

8 Quote (4)

10 Fragment (5)

11 Partner (7)

14 Periods (of week) (4)

16 Chat (6)

18 Housing development (6)

21 Peer (Br.) (4)

23 Vague (7)

26 Thing of value (5)

27 Dread (4)

28 Frigidity (7)

29 Appraise (6)

30 Conjecture (5)

Down

1 Pip gets pun (anag.) (8,2)

2 Honour (7)

3 Come before (7)

4 Small open boat (6)

5 Dismisses (5)

6 Surplus (5)

9 Publicises (10)

12 Exploiter (4)

13 Gamble (3)

15 Neighbourhood (4)

17 Phone (abbrev.) (3) 19 Killing (7)

20 Spartan (7)

22 Military forces (6)

24 Cooks (5)

25 Spooky (5)