CROSSWORD

No. 1,435

ACROSS

1 Powerfully persuasive company chap (6)

4 Hurry up and cut church work (4-4)

9 Location found outside area for bishop’s residence (6)

10 What cricketer might do to impress? (4,4)

12 Tent hire arranged for so many! (8)

13 Sponsor two little boys (6)

15 The brains to make bread? (4)

16 Device that scans a person afraid of motor vehicles? (4,6)

19 Restaurant where revolutionary Tories rise (10)

20 Dispatched perfume for the audience (4)

23 Reliable Tory leader out of practice (6)

25 Dead relaxed after last month! (8)

27 One’s art is structured for public officials (8)

28 Refuse to acknowledge pinching pig (6)

29 Ruse adopted by nurse laid low (8)

30 Strangely intense endless game (6)

DOWN

1 London, for example, has money that’s invested (7)

2 The nerve! Russian chap with time to play around (9)

3 Detail French resort on Tuscany’s borders (6)

5 Circular band produced by house work (4)

6 Looter’s flipping cheek with beer (8)

7 Hang around hotel, superfluous (5)

8 Mate’s standard lease turned up (7)

11 Late and deadly manoeuvres absorbing energy (7)

14 Formal notices of weakness after a date (7)

17 Shift drink, getting rebuke (5,4)

18 Tie score somehow - that’s mysterious (8)

19 The eyes have these in tears, possibly (7)

21 The ups and downs of the news? (7)

22 Conclude river swallowed detectives (6)

24 Express’s topless spread (5)

26 Nothing more than water (4)