| Clues across |
| 1 | Was he scrambled, as well as the cavalry? (6,6) |
| 9 | Popular ways to make raids (7) |
| 10 | Riveters’ tools used as playthings (7) |
| 11 | Tax is a moral obligation (4) |
| 12 | Fairy (trainee) in danger (5) |
| 13 | Wizards’ imagination – one country lost (4) |
| 16 | Those brandishing flags around start of Easter are using the shuttle (7) |
| 17 | Information precedes boy belonging to a class (7) |
| 18 | Alan loses his head, and cart runs back – rope needed! (7) |
| 21 | Middle Easterner decapitates British Prime Minister (7) |
| 23 | Friends fall out in mountain region (4) |
| 24 | Jailbird’s in for four years, initially – that’s a very short time! (5) |
| 25 | Enthusiasm for lemon peel (4) |
| 28 | Money hidden in one-time court, no longer here (7) |
| 29 | Nickel, oxygen, bismuth . . then hesitate to produce another element (7) |
| 30 | Political party preserving this sort of device? (6-6) |
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| Clues down |
| 1 | This drink will make you breathe badly (4,3) |
| 2 | Drunk dame’s drink (4) |
| 3 | Do they try out the bed-covers? (7) |
| 4 | Avoiding ding-dong, forgetting name in confusion (7) |
| 5 | Shopping precinct’s tiny, failing to open (4) |
| 6 | Found at high altitude – somewhere to vanish into (4,3) |
| 7 | Around beginning of November, woman who has lost her husband gets charlady and man with ladders (6-7) |
| 8 | A pain brought on by running, and meeting the deadline, prevents more, it’s said (1,6,2,4) |
| 14 | Drink thrown up by royal (5) |
| 15 | Bridge partners – or one of their opponents – breathe noisily (5) |
| 19 | Doze, sitting on crumpled hat around start of holidays – oil required (7) |
| 20 | Fisherman is an aimless character (7) |
| 21 | Child – a foreign princess (7) |
| 22 | Good time of day to do the ironing? (7) |
| 26 | Ruin peace-keepers’ party? (4) |
| 27 | One bog is turned into a desert (4) |
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