CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. The turning round of the duty list into this form (8) 7. Average start of temptation is intentional (5) 8. Amid her boys, Mum might get a call to go to court (7) 9. Let rind provide the means by which a plant can climb (7) 10. She has an American private on each hand (4) 12. Around the East various divers went over the work done (7) 14. A future possibility for the manufacture of sulphur (7) 17. Existence may go to and fro (4) 18. She is worshipped by little Desmond in the gallery (7) 21. Sort of blue rot that causes bother (7) 22. A characteristic feature of the rat upset by it (5) 23. Such complacency as guns made mess of (8)

DOWN

1. How one might relinquish post to singer (6) 2. Ask a trim shrub be planted out (8) 3. Siege place boy from 18 would ruin… (4) 4. … or initially leave that for the shellfish (6) 5. Two appear in one rap version of it (4) 6. It’s old and somehow impassive (6) 7. One in a kind of vermin that has white fur (7) 11. Study a trial in competition (7) 13. Is aware of something, being reasonable (8) 14. Being powerful, could possibly be before the end of January (6) 15. A way of organising a group of heavenly bodies (6) 16. Bars able to turn out such revels (6) 19. Do some business in timber (4) 20. Make a fuss about this, and dance (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across 1. Drill-master 6. Own 8. Lever 10. Artificer 11. Urge 12. Bulge 13. Backlash 16. Scrolls 17. Airy 18. Unau 19. Excited 21. Wiseacre 23. Cater 26. Nova 27. Animation 28. Debit 29. Hay 30. Battledress Down 1. Deliberate 2. Invulnerability 3. Largess 4. Stria 5. Refills 6. Occasional table 7. Nark 9. Erg 13. Boracic 14. Colette 15. Adumbrates 19. Ewe-lamb 20. Decoded 22. Roost 24. Ave 25. Hash