CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Group of officers with monitor supporting church ( 6,5)

9 Disadvantaged journalist entering northeast factory finally ( 5)

10 Terrible loss induced, characterising some settlements? ( 11)

11 Extreme point in Eastern European ( 4)

14 Scottish politician has to pass quickly two notes ( 5)

16 Broadcast policy for KLM, say ( 7)

17 A medical facility introducing a position in yoga ( 5)

18 Book about time around Switzerland for playwright ( 6)

19 Stickler for all to see in trips abroad ( 6)

22 Some deterioration in relationship ( 5)

23 Mother, perhaps, right away showing joy ( 7)

24 Catch old boy, wealthy type ( 5)

25 Start to hear in time clue ( 4)

26 Cautious male in travelling company favoured around Cuba ( 11)

29 Place with a zone, a paved area ( 5)

30 Flourishing type of product shown by current sign possibly around hotel ( 11)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across: 7 Interior design 9 Skulls 10 Avowedly 11,16 Interest rate 13 Tarmac 14 Buns 15 Admin 17 Zagreb 19 Didactyl 21 Augustus 23 Renown 24 Ischiocapsular

DOWN

1 Breaks half forgotten in French city ( 3)

2 Top learner given papers ( 3)

3 Clarify confused state of scathing lot ( 4,5,2)

4 A fine European in US autumn has Middle East dish ( 7)

5 Name differently Fenland place in turn after break ( 7)

6 Complete last parts of the lesson assigned ( 3)

7 Mobile Maria mislaid getting souvenirs ( 11)

8 Unusual step acting around end of July? Actors don’t like it! ( 11)

12 Places to improve locks? ( 11)

13 A civilised sort skirting river in island, a northern Spanish speaker? ( 11)

15 Austrian lost sadly after ignoring old wildlife experts ( 11)

20 Far end of this peninsula, very cold region ( 7)

21 Pick up note over spring ( 7)

26 Vehicle for transporting others caught by sailor ( 3)

27 Priest found in chapel, inevitably ( 3)

28 Pull vessel often in a harbour ( 3)