CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Things to get for grassing slope (8,4)

9 Unnecessary fuss, it’s said, about decaying flesh (7)

10 Make a resolution to include one in Olympian massacre, perhaps (7)

11 For the time being, Radio Times hasn’t printed verse (4) 12 and 13 Old boy aimed lightning-fast arrow at decorative piece (5,4)

16 I forgo leave from engineer corps at furthest point (7)

17 Detective has eye-protection factor (7) 18 Family seen in flattering colour (7) 21 Belly-ache mistaken by scientist (7) 23 West African country ready for taking out (4)

24 Landlock ship removed from legation (5) 25 Lock with member of 15 (4)

28 Stay the course to be the one who turns off the lights (4,3) 29 Bit role organised for aviator (7) 30 Being thin suggests not having much money (7,5)

DOWN

2 Most difficult had rest foxed (7)

3 Father’s suffering agony (4)

4 It’s shameful to get worked up on bilge (7)

5 Most welcome good fortune at 10? (7)

6 I make an offer in the same place (4)

7 Artics remodelled with original rollbar are three-wheelers (7)

8 Triumph over a sanctuary and make a quick getaway (4,1,7)

9 Police officer uses crowd control measure in cosy tea-room perhaps (6,6)

14 Rages frenziedly at motor mechanism (5) 15 One competes with prestigious US colleges (5)

19 Negative ways of operating with hot drinks (7)

ROS SHERARD 20 Test in action results in being reduced to the ranks (7)

21 Caught shepherd in spring having to scramble (7)

22 Computers almost foreign to Romance language (7)

26 You and I embraced all right when slept no longer (4)

27 Couple heard to have French father (4)