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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