CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Remember to arrive for baby-sitting? (4,2,4) 6 There’s much to apportion, we hear (1,3) 10 Hardly mere gist of settlement in south coast resort (4,5)

11 Your address to Duke by King George is first-rate (5)

12 Drink to getting a better job, lose memory (6)

13 Number to bury, for example, in deep (7) 15 Improbably certain as philosophy of “the ghost in the machine” (9) 18 Highland bridge carries last thoroughfare in its length (5)

19 Oddballs executed in rows (5) 21 Reprise of a lap scene in Edinburgh theatre (9)

23 Gain time, lose time, wander in fancy (7) 24 East heartily when meat contains mould initially (6)

27 Fireplace not starting to give warm feeling throughout body (5) 28 Make a judgement about a finally poor digital speed (9)

29 Team is coming back with extreme debacle (4)

30 Proposal at loch made with gentle sensitivity (10)

DOWN

1 Scotsman you are heard to leave unmoved (4)

2 Dancing that’s neither here nor there (5) 3 Set dish to put part of fork in by mistake (7) 4 This girl is near and good at heart (5) 5 Ignorance of Aberdeen’s physics department, say (9)

7 Colour of page who’s very new in the job? (4,5)

8 Literary family sent bother, unfortunately (3,7)

9 Stage a collection of semi-precious stones (6)

14 Shortages bound to leave their mark on urban centres (10)

16 Having far too much to do, as street urchins may (3,6)

17 Beg for Empire Act to be dissolved (9) 20 Bring fish on board, using sharply pointed objects (6)

22 One yelling for quiet at exterior (7) 24 Youngster got education in mathematical state (5) 25 and 26 PC tables motion to put money on (5,4)