Sunday News

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Open fear of the market leads to hatred (11)

6. Housing for a number of whales (3) 8. In diplomacy one’s left unspoken (5)

10. He keeps records of grist, rare as it may be (9)

11. A jerk who didn’t start Ike didn’t finish (4)

12. Signs the manuscript one has produced (5)

13. Aromatic spice seeds from Madras come, tails removed (8)

16. Clone he reproduces in step formation (7)

17. A visible sign of an evangelist (4) 18. A tribe that is able to take in lost leader (4)

19. Clergymen who appear as truce is arranged (7)

21. Made a fine spray – Tom’s idea, perhaps (8)

23. Blows the ends of the sleeves (5) 26. So, it’s back to the skeleton member (4)

27. Salts might be provided with plush seat (9) 28. One’s appropriat­e place in a specialise­d market (5)

29. Half of Jersey returns a vote in the affirmativ­e (3)

30. Itinerant preachers visit, salver being put out for them (11)

Down

1. Prodigious­ly great and monstrous, CIA has to do without us (10)

2. The band stops where the theatre seats begin (9,6)

3. Public performer is taken in to supply treat (7)

4. The conclusion of game that opened with nothing (5)

5. Don’t vote to be a teetotalle­r (7)

6. Private possession­s alone, PR’s FX may be (8,7)

7. Jazz it up with a tapering fold (4)

9. Particle before JP? O! (3)

13. Company may be short of bands of warriors (7)

14. Told how one was connected (7) 15. Rails and supports for stairs Benn constructe­d (10)

19. Insect repellent in car brings speed to zero (7) 20. Can lose one with a barbiturat­e like this (7)

22. Fragrant substance turned up in lime-leaves (5) 24. Like varsity (a French one) (3)

25. Catch sight of English mole perhaps (4)

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