CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
BY FRASER SIMPSON
ACROSS
1 Rodent relaxed in Asian country (10)
6 Sassy kid beginning to blame traitor (4)
9 Swell dance with nothing on (7)
10 Welsh port was sane, but changed (7)
12 Some conductors insert a wrong rest
into note (7)
13 Expresses disapproval to interest
Rwandan minority (5)
15 Elite escorted drunk (7)
17 Struggling along carrying party way
up a mountain (7)
18 Human-like machine and retro
designer (7)
21 Noisy bird also retreats inside bay (4,3)
23 A liberal one, out in court (5)
24 Went to location in video (7)
27 Beneficiary reads through their essays (7)
28 Won’t back eating poorly up to this
point (4,3)
29 Recess programs announced (4)
30 Ball outfit popular with friend, at first (10)
DOWN
1 Bear with a Caribbean island (4)
2 Muslim is secular, taking mass to heart (7)
3 Shut storage area left unfinished (5)
4 Set off butcher dieting (7)
5 Lopsided menu (7)
7 Ordered to stir egg dish at a trattoria (7)
8 Count goes around Havana the wrong
way, lamentably (10)
11 Tossed onion at Venetian merchant in a
play (7)
14 Caliph provides a bank for region of the
eastern U.S. (10)
16 Beastly queue takes a long time (7)
19 Newspapers distort the facts in
platform (7)
20 504 is alternatively like 63 when referring
to 504 (7)
21 #hotDoctorAghast (7)
22 E.g., second language test covers
Babel (7)
25 Nail leader of Taliban single-handedly,
almost (5)
26 Twisted a sandwich bread on the
tongue (4)
ARTS & PURSUITS
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