CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1/ 9 Diverse senate has one star from 24Dn 26Dn ( 6,6)

4 Toeholds built into garden structure ( 8)

9 See 1

10 See 21 Down

12 Crosses seamen filled with rage ( 8)

13 See 15

15/ 13 Hit by 1Ac 9Ac sounds like mark of sterling silver ( 4,2,4)

16 Navy uniform taken back, in perfect hit by 1Ac 9Ac ( 6,4)

19 Break for 1Ac 9Ac might be it - extraordinary last chance ( 3,3,4)

20 Sell revolutionary game ( 4)

23 Preserve everything – meat, berries, and lime marmalade initially ( 6)

25/ 19Dn Made severe demands on castle - cause accused of disloyalty ( 5,3,7)

27 Champion relishes going back to cover advance ( 8)

28 We’ll speak soon, making regular sacrifices in West Texas town ( 2,4)

29 With no energy, wild lions rest in breathing spaces ( 8)

30 Opposition leader heard about worried expression ( 2,4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across: 7 Historiography 9 Tsetse 10 Outdoors 11 Entailed 13 They’ll 14 Asps 15 Press 16 Moss 17 Offing 19 Salaried 21 Diamanté 23 Tripod 24 Weltanschauung

DOWN

1 Squashes relative ( 7)

2 Stanley novel sounds like any Victorian melodrama ( 4,5)

3 Hidey- hole that is a bit of the other ( 6)

5 Stone being worn by Yankee – a sign of something wrong ( 4)

6 A mixture of gain and loss happening at rodeo ( 8)

7 Part of north, an oil capital ( 5)

8 No booze where offender’s taken for battery ( 3,4)

11 See 22

14 Alum extracted from rocky, unmemorable mountain ( 3,4)

17 Press mount strong case ( 4,5)

18 Unopened type of crack in front of royal plane ( 8)

19 See 25 Across

21/ 10 Hit by 1Ac 9Ac on one’s prescription lenses? ( 3,4,4,4)

22/ 11 Places well- equipped to deal with complaints? ( 6,7)

24/ 26 Signal swindler’s accomplice in North Lanarkshire town ( 9)