CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Need of merit queen may be right to acquire (11)

6. Am going back to find parking on the chart (3)

8. Strips back to time off (5)

10. It’s awkward to come round as a parvenu (9)

11. Bacchic cry put back in the overture (4)

12. Make no such ossa without fuss (5)

13. The later university is of clay with iron compounds (8)

16. The problem of returning the cover to Jane’s book (7)

17. Two regarded as one thing that’s listed (4)

18. It comes to mind when a die is cast (4)

19. Soft soap used with a face-cloth (7)

21. With nervous disorder for which there’s no cure, it appears (8)

23. With credit, set out for the hilltop (5)

26. It’s nothing but a twitching of the ears (4)

27. Make laws into legal ties (9)

28. ‘For ____ are straws, men’s faiths are wafer-cakes’ (Henry V) (5)

29. Incite one to fight a sailor (3)

30. Lovers of Tess weather the storm (11)

Down

1. Laughable state of one British yield he’d abandoned (10)

2. HM’s courier is an officer with official dispatches (6,9)

3. Sort of poems I’d laid on one (7)

4. The walrus is a dashed dotty thing (5)

5. Guesthouse in Greece puts a finish to the inn (7)

6. So it is curried to calm the theatre’s orchestra conductor (7,8)

7. That is, in afterthought, old Indian money (4)

9. Time preceding event going up and down (3)

13. Having to depend on it, learn about it (7)

14. It’s a devilish way to do mince (7)

15. Makes play of it as dreams are made of it (10)

19. Wooded areas that start furnishing a variety of stores (7)

20. Milk-sugar may be produced to scale (7)

22. The fibre tiles are made from (5)

24. It has the manner of turning up as a drowned valley (3)

25. The story of a novel stratagem (4)