DAILY PUZZLES PAGE

ACROSS

1 Musical crustacean? (7,4)

9 Ring back about one shrub (5) 10 River beast to make blockade

at port (9)

11 Late examination (7)

12 Take turns going round the

country (9)

14 In bodega, Gareth who’s

slightly crazy (4)

16 Chemical found in box I’d

anticipated (7)

18 Behind stopping short of flower

(5)

20 Helot ousted from inn (5) 21 Lady, one involved with redder

solution (7)

22 One is not truthful about bird

(4)

25 Run away from elks, added

confusion (9)

26 Sanctimonious fashion designer found it was appetising ((7)

27 Future existence following

imprisonment perhaps (9) 29 Right greeting getting refusal

from animal (5)

30 Plant producing beer to go with

dessert (11)

DOWN

1 Initially trees to be chopped

down (5,2,3)

2 Dorothy has a way to produce

dope (6)

3 Peer from Belgian city, feudal

superior (5-4)

4 Shade left of centre (3)

5 Light in Italian capital seen at

evening display (5,6) 6 Bachelor with Elizabeth took

time inside for attack (5) 7 Frivolous fellow with cheek will

gasp for breath (8)

8 Some pick-your-own is sickly

sweet (4)

13 Not that current month with

worker immediately (4,7) 15 Greeting everybody at ancient city before end of August (3,3,4)

17 Uterus has been removed from

book (9) 19 Rushed taking fancy quilt

round when it was quiet (8) 23 These days second-incommand gives specially skilled opinion (6)

24 Bill getting work outside from

another man (5) 26 Impertinent, partly saucy and

cheeky (4)

28 Extreme member, one of five

afoot! (3)