CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Everything’s dotting along nicely, broken leg also thriving (3,4,4)

9 Frankie, perhaps a lad on the wings of love (5)

10 Survived returning with upset bowels following double hairpin in Glenshee (6,5)

11 Some swerve erratically (4)

14/1D/8 Testing with payback in role for 26Ac (5,3,11)

16/21 Awareness of release of Jimmy 9Ac story with 26Ac (5,2,7)

17 Electromagnetic weapon exist to hold back crowd (1-4)

18 Mostly out of drink? (6)

19 Live without head of hair shortly (2,1,3)

22 Moon-based panto queen McLean engaged by both sides (5)

23 Italian dish recipe starter - it’s too complicated (7)

24 Edinburgh first XI the French cast out (5)

25 Where brass is found in the small isles (4)

26 Havana did my cocktail for Bridgeton star (5,6)

29 Arab national starts to incite revolution after questionable intelligence (5)

30 Mad aesthete intoxicated by warm vapours (5-6)

STAPLETON

DOWN

1 See 14 Across

2 Change in Sofia over never-ending taxation (3)

3 Broken down super-lorries dropping essential cargo – something to look out for when driving (3,8)

4 Fiddled welfare state? Alert goes out over nothing at all (5,2)

5 Current recession is a drop in the ocean (3,4)

6 Wobble back periodically when out on a limb (3)

7 Spooner’s gymnast Simone has adorable channels in Argyll (5,2,4)

8 See 14 Across

12 Sulkier dame upset Dumfriesshire village (11)

13 Native American canoe washed up round Mauritius (6,5)

15 Slight incline towards being a playboy? (4,2,1,4)

20 Angus clan occasionally longs for the Italian-French life (7)

21 See 16 Across

26 Bad-mouth detectives... (3)

27 ...but satisfied police (3)

28 Refusal by head of department to give assent (3)