CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 A dismissive word to Sam, not being in credit (5)

It’s pickle, so don’t waste it (5)

Rolling along the alley (7) Amount of metal moulded into and around a key (5) Being Welsh, she guided Noel around the capital (5) Where to get a sound crew (5)

Happen to veer to the off (4,3)

A partnership’s seedy ends? (3)

Dry in the fresh air a lot (4) Be generous so as to have maybe atoned (6)

Rear to be tough (5) At heart, the plain facts can possibly hurt (6)

Face a girl and a boy (4) The promising start is positive (3)

25 A poet’s movements? (7) 26 One sailing from Oslo, perhaps, to Peterhead? (5) Just a bad molar (5)

The boy with the can (5) Encouragement to be progressive (2,5)

30 A hard-hearted line has its point (5)

Informal forename for a footballer (5) 6

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Agree to deceive a dirty dog! (6)

Proliferate in one great leap? (6) 4 5 6

7 8 12 13 14 15 16 Tom’s up for the test (3) Dally, yet move fast! (5) In high probability, it gets snowed on (7)

Look with love at a shapely leg? (4)

Choose to raise fees for the thing in question (3,3) Factions that see lust as needing correction? (5) Stay around for a little time, it’s nice (5)

Arrange to make an outfit more expensive (3,2)

In the garden, much clever topiary (5) Prepares potatoes, a bit of pie and some fish (5) 18 19 21 22 23 25 26 28 Look exhausted and fall out of the ring (5) Everything in the exhibition is trivial (7)

Artist who, again, had no hair-piece (6)

I’d vied with a share system (6)

Are there degrees of fishiness in his sport (6) Coffee, or some more tea that’s not right (5) An import we get in from Saigon? (4)

A mousy flier (3)