CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Modern anxiety about returning to Missouri (4)

3 Guide Spooner’s stucco guy? (6,4) 10 Replace prudes upset with copies (9) 11 Explain cosmetic for lips (5) 12 Turned over lawn-repair sign, we hear (5) 13 Return admiration, accepting street racer (8)

15 Rudely intrude like a rookie (7)

17 Look suggestively around court at focal point of witness stand (7)

19 Layer pastries from right to left, I’m thinking (7)

21 Interest Republican in howler, an animal at the zoo (7)

22 Breaks one of the strings placed toward the front (8)

24 Reward for an employee riding in bus (5) 27 Should have said substance contains trace of nuts (5)

28 Specify barbecue locales back near university after midnight (9)

29 Rock group gets sick eating whole chicken (10)

30 Connecticut campus finally okay with draft pick (4)

DOWN

1 Our chef is wobbly carrying second part of a meal (4,6)

2 Hybrid bike was blue (5) 4 Modified end of prayer with trio of dedications (7)

5 You might trim this feature of Manx cats, according to Spooner (7)

6 Burn up about hint of garlic in things (5) 7 Paper lease randomly snatched by buffoon on the way up (5-4) 8 Reportedly isn’t just guessing tiny margin of victory (4)

9 Famous actor ultimately flopped in bit part somehow (4,4)

14 Founders (i.e., Germans) partly surrounded by foes (5,5) 16 Crystallized sugar turned very dry and cool with stir (9)

18 Cold beer mixed with Jamaican liquor, I’m thinking (8)

20 Friend of Picasso lives with small riding partner (7)

21 Fuel linked to noise from an engine struggling to take in air (7)

23 Nearly influenced by the river of forgetfulness (5)

25 Draw from Kenya’s and Tanzania’s border lake (5)

26 Months following a biblical prophet (4)