Prize Crossword 29,491

Across

5 Bind helium in nucleus (6)

8 Great loss of liquid for flushing lavatory? (8)

9 Apply pressure to burden tradesperson (7)

10 Gets sticks (5)

11 Nasty sneers set to show abrupt manner (9)

13 Hard border control? That’s prickly! (8)

14 Non-Equity presentations shot in the afternoon? (2-4)

17 Send back rotten fish (3)

19 Company located in Brentwood? (3)

20 Rodent traps doctor in shopping centre (6)

23 Substantial weight is in wood floor (8)

26 One unofficially upholds law, leaving it in ruins (9)

28 Animal pound Tibetan priest guards (5)

29 Alteration for the late one running? (7)

30 Wet weather protection designed into a car (8)

Old weapons in unopened graves (6)

Down

1 Ultimately malicious sorceress making light flicker? (6)

2 Poor kid last in Scottish archipelago (2,5)

3 Sound rising? Time to exit street party! (9)

4 Murphy dropping old rubbish in river (6)

5 Old king’s rule for salad (8)

6 Mum stuffs chicken for macho sort (2-3)

7 Those out to stop traitor that changes Resistance? (8)

12 Very early bird? (3)

15 Second number scheme on European aircraft (9)

16 Heater that’s cooler for car (8) 18 Having reached 50, worker lives in fantasy land (8)

21 Moggy fur lacking nothing (3) 22 Ovid was forced to deny knowledge (7)

24 Something for children to observe now and then? (6)

25 Back-slapping ambassador with cultural pretensions? (6) 27 Digs in snow and ice? (5)