The Scotsman

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- ROS SHERARD

ACROSS

1 Where music issues from echo, arts trip plays (9,3) 9 He keeps pigeons that are more ornamental (7) 10 Eat in company at home with a popular Italian port (7) 11 He’s in debt _ too much for a Scot (4) 12 and 13 Too soon to say parliament­ary motion’s ending in tears (5,4) 16 Symbolical­ly on the outskirts, arises from hardware and software both (7) 17 Greek missionary composed lyrics over tea, they say (2,5) 18 Dogs that regularly haul to heights (7) 21 Pass in easy stages and get letters after one’s name, though not upper class (7) 23 Polish nude (4) 24 and 25 Claim hare used to provide animal fibre (5,4) 28 Siren offering garland of stories (7) 29 Good health en tails transforma­tion (7) 30 Crazy, and flees from practical facts (4,3,5)

DOWN

2 Organise rentals in streams (7) 3 Pay attention, I say, to brains (4) 4 Press ads used to create centre-folds, perhaps (7) 5 Catches out making thunderous noises (7) 6 Father with original sin and hot-headed infatuatio­n (4) 7 It’s on mountain tops where things vanish (4,3) 8 Milk with seasoning _ spooky, topsy-turvy (12) 9 Stands with coppers after kicks (5,3,4) 14 Lived it up like a demon (5) 15 Get lost and let out a cry when missing final route (5) 19 Bright orange shift for fans (7) 20 Where Aristotle started all-male revolution­ary movement (7) 21 Surmised visitor was announced (7) 22 Once more, split boundaries are opposed (7) 26 Incompeten­t idiot is an obstructio­n to flow (4) 27 City manager gets no end of sauce (4)

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