Glasgow Times

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- BENBECULA

ACROSS 1

Sum up Spain with shimmering sun at place ( 11)

9 Go on bike around entrance to gleaming narrow strip ( 5)

10 Weird return possibly for one in the insurance business ( 11)

11 Trouble with current thing operating in ranks? ( 4)

14 Note picked up for singer ( 5)

16 Severely rebuke trustee with little weight ( 7)

17 Prosper with 40 in Rome reportedly ( 5)

18 Official statement about Aberdeen, say ( 6)

19 Frolic in part performed at once ( 6)

22 Sensationa­l temptation almost revealed by papers ( 5)

23 Unstable terrain for a coach ( 7)

24 Register name in unusual role ( 5)

25 Observatio­n backing English school ( 4)

26 Note official payment largely in fact planned as later result? ( 11)

29 Celebrity chef rejecting duck and meat offal ( 5)

30 Clan once met uneasily in hiding ( 11)

DOWN 1

English and Greek character for Australian resident? ( 3)

2 Fake characters regularly seen in crowd ( 3)

3 Parade drink distribute­d in transport system ( 4- 3- 4)

4 Posh pair altered date given greater status? ( 7)

5 Worker with woman held up thing put on a roof? ( 7)

6 Slip in territory ( 3)

7 Commercial vehicle with building material gets prior payment ( 11)

8 Urge allies developed to defend leader of this lawmaking body ( 11)

12 Bird seen around front of the large yard in an alarming way? ( 11)

13 Helpful US actor recalled musical ( 2- 9)

15 Awful furore chap left being critical ( 11)

20 Strictly moral type in part awkwardly carrying uniform ( 7)

21 A lecturer in restricted aim in general ( 2,5)

26 Curve in triumphal structure shortened ( 3)

27 Ingredient put in beverage for first woman ( 3)

28 Express impatience with solicitor excluding nothing ( 3)

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