CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Treat part on top of columns? Unable to work out how (11) 6. Building of clay and straw for a swan (3) 8. One gives warning of her being seductive (5) 10. Assert that the team is going to the USA (9) 11. In Old English, it’s the weight of slimy mud (4) 12. Try to find water so dew can be formed (5) 13. Car will fade out as a judgement on heretics (4-2-2) 16. Stone Isle of Ireland (7) 17. A picture of being gunned down (4) 18. Telephoned back to snarl at one (4) 19. Temple vestibule where parson may receive nothing (7) 21. See moulding as art lag can turn to (8) 23. Storehouse in France in street a peasant uses (5) 26. Not a break possible at the roadside (4) 27. See a vault in the way one estimates its worth (9) 28. Power only may be supported by this (5) 29. Fool one that the leather is soft (3) 30. Difficult problem a bearer isn’t able to resolve (5-6)

DOWN

1. Take your time in order to see to Daisy (4,4,2) 2. Discard all one’s been dealt and give up (5,2,4,4) 3. How has Zen been producing aromatic hydrocarbon? (7) 4. Armadillo one is told has a pattern on its skin (5) 5. Corrected by people in deed of a sort (7) 6. Leading policemen take the principal landscape paintings (5,10) 7. Food plant sounds as if it might be a pulse (4) 9. Love-god has no right to be called Dawn (3) 13. It seems to last for ever, the loan Egg makes (7) 14. Labour has rival at work (7) 15. New error then compounded by a Yankee (10) 19. It’s cheeky to rub it the wrong way and unsettle one (7) 20. Aspire separately to surmount it (7) 22. Port dweller may have new idea about him (5) 24. Endeavour to conduct a hearing (3) 25. It is not stressed how feeble it is (4)