CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pigeon sauce to ladle over cod (8,4) 9 Pepper small mountain animal around springtime (7)

10 Repeals treatment at turn for the worse (7) 11 Twistiest road ever known by leaders of hike (4)

12 Be in charge of meeting about Hebridean habitat that’s no longer mine, they say (5) 13 Targets assisted reproduction of manuscript (4)

16 Hold up American outlay environment (7) 17 Astronaut in his dotage to head for rest home (7)

18 Unbeliever who’s a favourite with Castro? (7)

21 Peculiar dialect used in fortress (7) 23 Pound, raze, destroy! (4)

24 Bridge I construct in European country (5) 25 Go, perhaps, as far as scheming (2,2) 28 Period of extreme cold shown by station clock (7)

29 As well to stock map for army unit (7) 30 Total disillusion of the French with Ollie’s partner who confounds hopes, maybe (4,3,5)

DOWN

2 Subject work on papers (7)

3 Phone back when taken to bed (4)

4 Got to find pain in rosy surroundings (7) 5 It’s adventurous to weave love into term of endearment (7)

6 Cooks in water, doesn’t start with fats (4) 7 Temper I waste when more hungry (7) 8 Bank advance _ one everyone’s onto with a grab (8,4)

9 Form of TB may stop around first treatment at seaside resort (5,7)

14 Clever direction brings out operatic composer (5)

15 Ornamental stone makes an entrance (5) 19 Send on pro-belligerence opening directive (7)

20 Vicious petrochemical bomb re-introduced on a Spanish island (2,5)

21 Creased up when greeted entrance of member (7)

22 Take a dim view of department’s traditional tales (7)

26 May tickle these with jokes (4)

27 Note map of SE Asian country (4)