CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Soccer player gets the bird for cheeky retorts (8)
5 Business fixed in minutes (6)
9 Dismissed just for being unqualified (8)
10 Surgeon’s paper knife (6)
12 Ascertain unusual view of a philosopher (9)
13 Record a stage direction (5)
14 Infantry base (4)
16 There are two points he can possibly raise (7)
19 Gamble a great deal on a patched-up tyre (7)
21 It’s something to build on (4)
24 A tax return (5)
25 Club about to give female support (9)
27 Workers’ home (6)
28 Nightingale in Tuscany (8)
29 Southern wines blended for strength (6)
30 How crocodiles travel? (3,2,3)
DOWN
1 Tap and introduce (6)
2 Traces wrongly directed supplies (6)
3 Sound scale for weather (5)
4 Unbeliever is at the assembly (7)
6 Fruit stolen - used as missiles? (9)
7 Reason why hospitalised addicts occupy one bed in nine? (8)
8 Legal man rings the changes on treaty (8)
11 Sounds an unfavourable bet (4)
15 Piece of bad fielding brings defeat (9)
17 Girl to look over yearbooks (8)
18 Horse sadly lost nail (8)
20 Boys turn into aggressive teenagers (4)
21 One doesn’t make a summer drink (7)
22 Sort of butter made from vegetable and fruit (6)
23 The answer to this lies in the retort (6)
26 Scour the outback (5)