CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1.

Clime that is responsible for sporting quality (11)

6. Has but to return the container (3) 8. A seasonal song to sing (5)

10. Can’t move to play red as necessary (9)

11. It is no use being so conceited (4)

12. Active people can turn so red (5) 13. Angelic beings may be – um – rich! (8)

16. It is car to be sarcastic about (7) 17. It may be au lait, the eatery (4) 18. A breeder to set at intervals (4) 19. For example, grins about a suppressed laugh (7)

21. May have hated cat not to be apart (8)

23. A hoard each can start to put together (5)

26. Cyprus organisation got the OK after containing it (4)

27. It’s in particular form of its reversed order (9)

28. Small drum or bat perhaps (5) 29. Anoint one returning from rebellion (3) 30. Hero we brawl about in a handcart (11)

Down

1. The venerable reach can do with a turn (10)

2. It happens after gathering for a service in church (7,8)

3. Joins up with lens it’s making (7) 4. Will visually jar with the sound of cymbals (5)

5. Something like cockles company mulls about (7)

6. Pole involved in Highland event (7,3,5)

7. Wait to be around when I’d entered (4)

9. Blade that starts off as rudder (3) 13. Swimmer to give a sea-mew? (7)

14. It’s all the fashion, in conclusion, to be made furious (7)

15. Not too intellectual could be mild word for it (10)

19. Box and have an argument with a bird (7)

20. Cheese, or cat it replaces (7)

22. Sort of poem there’s nothing deep about (5) 24. Either way, it’s an alias (1,1,1)

25. It’s short weight given in the metric version (4)