The Scotsman

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- HUGH JOHNSON

Across

1 In the US, a five-dollar bill, at the end will pay the penalty (4)

3 Do what's needed, no matter how much it takes (2,3,5)

10 Fred had to trade up when forced to revise a first sketch (9)

11 Many reply, in short, at the end, in residence (5)

12 Kept it short in a faster service (5)

13 Thrilling production creating a sudden startling effect (8)

15 New suits left out in a barrage of abuse (7)

17 Drink to some military engineers who are paramount (7)

19 Retreat into a place of refuge, used as a bolt-hole (7)

21 Begin with the French, showing how to take one aback (7)

22 Boots Lee out as he's outdated (8)

24 Beat time here, right over band, initially (5)

27 An edible leafstalk might end up scorched, we're told (5)

28 It's not difficult to be a professor, having a good place to sit (4,5)

29 Realise how to follow another person's logic, etc (10)

30 In the morning, I had to follow, among others (4)

Down

1 At the beginning, land at dawn (5,5)

2 Forced some to the bottom in a direct line (5)

4 The rest may turn up in chains (7)

5 Left some garden tools to be entered in registers (7)

6 Space traveller may arrive on time (5)

7 Time in nets arranged new feeling for it (9)

8 Soaks things, as in 9 down, taking over a meat dish (4)

9 Terminal on, track, as site of a decisive battle (8)

14 Called to mind how to grass on an MP, for instance (10)

16 A team had to get onto a ship with an item of furniture (9)

18 Repeated performanc­e by players in music, sport, etc (8)

20 A ancient city in Egypt, at the end, was 17 across (3,4)

21 Trample over one member of the family (5,2)

23 Classify things in sequence, on command (5)

25 Sound man started off in the country (5)

26 Describe the colour of unbleached linen in the crudest terms (4)

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