CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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)