CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fellow concerned with number keeping in front of kerfuffle is a nonconformist (11)

9 Custom shown by refined man of wisdom (5)

10 Criminal trio in Stirling avoiding prison acquiring pounds becoming very wealthy (7,2,2)

11 Estonian regularly observed is an occasional smoker? (4)

14 Bring out sign of approval in day before notable event? (5)

16 Leading American goes behind rock essentially to see marine creature (7)

17 Tour island in view almost (5)

18 Friend given tax that’s insignificant (6)

19 Something for treating bruises misplaced in a car (6)

22 A tiro misunderstood relationship between things? (5)

23 Article by Irish and US magazine showing period for broadcast? (7)

24 Put off day free for swimming (5)

25 Filth in Hebridean island (4)

26 Combative inventor entering ground with no end of acclamation (11)

29 Malign North American fronting a place in a dirty state (5)

30 A set in a hotel working without energy in Scottish council area (4,7)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across: 1 Form of code 6 Amid 9 Pachyderms 10 Skew 12 Schoolhouses 15 First time 17 Balti 18 Extol 19 Fathering 20 Technicality 24 Sloe 25 Fire engine 26 East 27 Enthusiasm

DOWN

1 Distant service brought up (3)

2 US novelist elevated slippery figure (3)

3 Prior detail getting confused in a testing time? (5,6)

4 French painter taken with sun in entrance (7)

5 Family bereavement in village in Moray (7)

6 Boring grind in rugby training initially (3)

7 Group with whisky, say, showing a festive mood (5,6)

8 Maybe, fine Australian shortly studied part of a pitch? (7,4)

12 Remark about role in a chamber (11)

13 This claim is made to encapsulate case of expert showing physical fitness (11)

15 First woman with right gift, one that’s always in attendance? (4-7)

20 Speaks at length in a trivial manner getting square cakes (7)

21 A trip arranged by a lecturer that is not complete (7)

26 In a team sport, an extra word for parting? (3)

27 Some relics for a priest (3)

28 A big weight in Troon oddly (3)

Down: 1 Fops 2 Race 3 Oxyacetylene 4 Credo 5 Demulcent 7 Makes plain 8 Downswings 11 Cobblestones 13 Aftertaste 14 Cretaceous 16 Infection 21 Leech 22 Tina 23 Germ