CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Red deer that’s found in Moray Firth town (6)

4 The same thing is contained in very lengthy outbreak of disease (8)

9 Feels hurt by intimation of intelligence (6) 10 If centre cannot hold, become demented (8) 12 Light infantry took the order to be flexible (5)

13 Lunchbreak announced without hostility (9) 14 Subtly ironical, not starting to sound loud and clear (7)

15 And others have come back dead (2,2) 19 Miss rubbish truck (4) 21 Accumulate a hundred before prison (5,2) 24 People moving abroad are streaming out (9) 26 Gone aground in Italian port (5) 27 Dagger’s shank due to be repaired (5,3) 28 Quiet row diminished (6)

29 People from Denmark involved in misuse of people from North Africa (8)

30 Swear to be going to cricket match (6)

DOWN

1 Old church provides scholar with building material (8)

2 Applaud part that’s put down as poppycock (8)

3 Having first class condition, not quite in debt? (2,3,4)

5 Replace weave with fine cotton fabric (7) 6 Thick wooded valley containing the ultimate in trees (5)

7 Some trickery gave substance to system of measurement (6)

8 Hid pain during music, perhaps (6) 11 Whirl of starting price not being out (4) 16 Going in company is trending but rather unlikely to succeed (1,4,4)

17 Frighten family members into using moisturiser etc (8)