CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Count latest work for skills recruiter (6,5) 9 Hard stone in a part of airport? (5) 10 Conservationists with appeal in part for something to which one has a claim (11) 11 One preparing to serve meat, we hear, or sparkling wine (4) 14 Sample of early riches in song (5) 16 Tin, say, feature in a cooker? (7) 17 Joint gets to be irritating? Not initially (5) 18 Staid boyfriend is found behind sides of store (6) 19 River, unusually hot, shown by stunning abstract artist (6) 22 First sign of this unwelcome growth in Scottish river (5) 23 Provides a fine summary initially about ex-US president (7) 24 Poet certainly encapsulates a time (5) 25 Monstrous type comprehended by progressives (4) 26 Mixture of largely English names lacking significance (11) 29 A measure of liquid taken by artist in African capital (5) 30 Order page to show list of accusations (6,5)

DOWN

1 Hot drink cited as support (3) 2 Rental property in Annandale trumpeted (3) 3 Stay out under storms, nothing less, as a school discipline (6,5) 4 The last criminal shows furtiveness (7) 5 Two features of cricket go beyond a limit (7) 6 Worthless material in military entertainment (not half) (3) 7 Rank a relish that’s manufactured in historic Scottish county (11) 8 See a southern resort right away, legislative body’s meeting-place (6-5) 12 Southeast Englishman, maybe, takes in sun that’s excellent (11) 13 Long to go up on bridge in wharf to see politician (6,5) 15 Confined places entered by a Frenchman, old university fellow with line in disguises (11) 20 Imposing area around a Spanish city (7) 21 Temporary element in football? (7) 26 Host holds a waterproof coat (3) 27 Temptress in revelry (3) 28 Drunk in this way close to befuddlement (3)