THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1083

ACROSS

1 Mother receiving some training is a dish (4,6)

6 Bust, disheartened? Period of success needed (4) 10 Cake with port (5) 11 Something needed in court always for criminal (9) 12 Angry about gear getting wet (8) 13 Article covering income tax and property tax (5)

15 Arab’s first to get into landing strip for desert (3,4)

17 Caught wearing thong? It’s an outrage (7) 19 Pointers mostly unnecessary (7) 21 Merit of French verse in new edition (7)

22 One small point seen around centre of oil dipstick (5) 24 Nice gala arranged for plant (8) 27 Top cover provided by man before speech (9)

28 Very much done correctly around mid-morning (2,3)

29 One taking legal action – sounds like it’s a drain (4)

30 Sign for a missing letter essential to say, Eugene O’neill (10)

DOWN

1 One jewel shown up is great (4) 2 One caring about lack of knowledge (9)

3 Fur on one raccoon-like mammal (5)

4 Ill-prepared French article on cash (7)

5 Bags of pain in street ending in tears (7)

7 Endless deprivation not disguised (5)

8 Seller aims to mislead the city (10)

9 The others getting shock mentioned in times without work (4-4)

14 Waves aggressively for breakfast bowls? (10)

16 Flush broken loo and weld end of joint (4-2-2)

18 Costing the earth? Certainly not! (4-5)

20 Change coming from Saudi ruler reportedly, at university (5-2) 21 Takes away summaries (7) 23 How programme ends is stupid! (5) 25 Bin-bag for a large ship? (5) 26 No women in golf club could be an advantage! (4)