QUICK PUZZLE

Across

1 Carefully selected (4-6) 6 Adjoin (4)

10 Sum offered as a prize (5) 11 Heedful (9)

12 Source of crisis (8)

13 Third planet from the sun (5)

15 Intense delight (7) 17 Agitation (7)

19 Throw into confusion (7) 21 Room for cooking (7) 22 Fatigued (5)

24 Cram into a tight space (8) 27 French operetta composer salvation in a (9)

28 A woman (5)

29 Microorganism (4) 30 Observer of an event (10) at her wedding

Down

1 Chance of success (4)

2 A bulbous flowering plant (9)

3 Vex (5)

4 Lucidity (7)

5 Implore (7)

7 Tangled mass plants (5)

8 Conform to expected standards of prickly (3,3,4)

9 Behind closed doors (2,6) 14 Obstinately self-willed (10) 16 Existing in plentiful supply (8)

18 Or else (9)

20 Region of central Italy (7) 21 Expertise (4-3)

23 Pass on for consideration (5)

25 Usual practice (5)

26 An optical device (4) Across