Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1. Acknowledges praise and gets ready to shoot (5,1,3)
6. Shook hands, ignoring a strong desire (5)
9. Maverick individual right behind Labour’s leader (5)
10. Development, for example, set back by depot (9)
11. Courses of study prepared marine on board ship (8)
12. Fancy term used to address someone in abridged legal document (6)
14. Stop working on endorsement backed in section (4,3)
15. Came across river bordering developed nation (3,4)
17. Spouse dropping by a centre of activity (3)
18. French painter is getting back to basics with friend about (7)
20. Eats with dishevelled gents imprisoned by island (7)
22. Irritate joint after run (6)
24. Display is on time in British capital (8)
27. Founder scattered collection of religious books on the ground (9)
28. A sweet is sharp (5)
29. Department facing hospital with intensity (5)
30. Leader of party embraced by excited royal – she is fooling around (9)
DOWN
1. Accounts left in overturned electorate (5)
2. Relative from Minsk ordered one (7)
3. Sort of suture son is demanding (9)
4. Authoritarian leader expressed irritation about brig out of control (3,7)
5. Learned sound of letters (4)
6. Important resting place (5)
7. No one trend picked up in printing (7)
8. Anger shown in party by American is menacing (9)
13. Judge unusual trait in tree (10)
14. Visited part of Africa once administered by the French leader from Dijon (4,5)
16. His agent worked around opening of firm’s after hours depository (5,4) 19. Arrived right away and got ready to play (5,2)
21. Representation of sun in stamp is not intellectual or spiritual? (7)
23. Conifer’s long curved structure (5)
25. Division of many men eventually moved up the other side (5)
26. Exclusive shop requiring refurbishment (4)
Previous solution
Across: 1. Stigmata, 5. Adds up, 9. Man-eater, 10 & 4 Down. Take to the cleaners, 11. Ileum, 12. Looks up to, 14. Permanent wave, 17. Irrepressible, 21. Rehearser, 24. Beauty, 25. Strokers, 26. Sayers, 27. The Tiser.
Down: 1. Summit, 2. Innkeeper, 3. Myanmar, 6. Dead set, 7. Sweep, 8. Provokes, 13. Overstretch, 15. Adeptness, 16. Microbes, 18. Plaster, 19. Bawl out, 20. Eraser, 22 & 23 Across. Heavy water.