CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Prolonged claustrophobia? Take taxi home, always, without alternative (5,5) 6 Stakes claim to luggage (4) 10 Meal including apple at home is place to take off from (6,3) 11 Grey like blackcock’s mate (5) 12 Shivers with horror and won’t be quiet to see what 1 drinks from (6) 13 Offensive sound hides sacred word (7) 15 Call into question record on social media news, we hear (9) 18 It is not colloquial pollution (5) 19 See religious inclusion of love in parts of speech (5) 21 Can resent revolution becoming active again (9) 23 Highlanders get leg up with first-class entry at Mod in recession (7) 24 Rovers in Fife add unvoiced start to get spirit (6) 27 Gets the message and leaves – where to find them? (5) 28 Mungo’d likely admit it’s not divine (9) 29 Rubbish starts at tops of slag heaps (4) 30 Make things clearer when hut’s burning (4,1,5)

DOWN

1 and 2 Young thing to jump at antique type of book (4-5) 3 United Nations reacts to obvious energy source (7) 4 Public displays of shame are announced (5) 5 Did God intend creation of the first astrophysicist? (9) 7 Path I rode in a frenzy with goddess of love (9) 8 Sent task, ie reform work, in area of social deprivation (4,6) 9 Chinese communist becomes wet when first ardour’s lost (6) 14 I’m lost adapting dieting to reach final weight (1,4,3,2) 16 One’s virus may form feature of holiday memories (9) 17 Move quickly over oral connection to Devon resort (9) 20 How upset is Monsieur at love of cruelty? (6) 22 What’s afoot, perhaps, when taking first communion with infamy (7) 24 Earning to have made war (5) 25 Restrictive and irksome to lose initial race (5) 26 Digging this could give exercise to reach resident (4)