Crossword

ACROSS

8 Teeny-weeny moment (6)

9 Chief supporter, a guy admitting one visit (8)

10 Funny perhaps holding a role for the little corporal (9)

11 The goddess ignores some of the odd parts in the first issue (4)

12 Start to deny it’s not rural in South Africa (6)

15 Lack of footwear holding the right label (8)

16 Dismissal of her Uncle Sam at last in front of the UK cricket ground (7)

17 Can’t see so much of the cracker performance? (7)

21 Remove the tail left perhaps in the harbour area (8)

24 Private eye could hustle about (6)

25 Takes it easy at last with the eastern infection (4)

26 Killers right away get the horses’ disease (9)

29 Commodities obtained by multiplication? (8)

30 Annoying one king after another (6)

DOWN

1 Starts to lay into the doctor with a branch (4)

2 It’s down to reject and it’s back to retreat (4)

3 Animal that’s florid and found in a Maori settlement (3,5)

4 Inspire awe at the claim to be a reporter? (7)

5 Enjoys duck in this manner (4,2)

6 Co-operation gets the fool one position (10)

7 Treatment in a beauty salon is increasing (6)

13 Take advantage of crocuses in part (3)

14 Stupid people stop the bosses (10)

18 Becoming angry at missing information technology (6,2)

19 Some of the odd characters in Fremantle scoff (3)

20 The closest are in a tree home (7)

22 The scream after the umpire’s call causes a protest (6)

23 Bug I scent out (6)

27 Blokish admitting a god (4)

28 Say the coin is dispatched (4)