CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Balance American commerce with handy aid to steps (10) 6 Flock during the course of another day (4) 10 Sort and send us to links. perhaps (4,5) 11 Circlin’ round, we hear, with flower (5) 12 Posh fur can be put to good purpose (6) 13 Fodder plant found by Swiss lake (7) 15 Wine produced from meat by Russian firm (9) 18 Linus returned to find Indian man (5) 19 Ersatz latrine unserviceable (5) 21 Old news of open secret, for instance. from no unknown quantities of idiots (9) 23 Suitable to take plunge into rundown cinema (4-3) 24 Cooks up recital of minor injury (6) 27 Be losing head when gender-prejudiced (5) 28 Playing away, perhaps, when repenting hasty marriage? (2.7) 29 Zero-sum game or contact sport (4) 30 Deep strain unfortunately experienced when uninspired (10)

DOWN

1, 2 Worthless school punishment used for standards of comparison (4,5) 3 Text giving extra detail could be snug (7) 4 Wash original rocks in Home Counties (5) 5 Aimless adaptation of sultry ode (9) 7 With sixth sense, age seems not confused by artificial language (9) 8 Sadly, darling set to be on record of critically ill (6,4) 9 Halts progress of building materials (6) 14 Elderly people have outdated ways to cushion shocks (3,7) 16 Bright metallic element’s make-up amusing me (9) 17 Brief parting gesture on broadcasting medium (5-4) 20 AA post recipe for tropical fruit (6) 22 No record of copper being buried by medical professional (7) 24 Hull’s the place to utter nonsense (5) 25 Small car obtained from Arab (5) 26 Spotted capitals of Switzerland, Egypt, Eritrea and Norway (4)