Solution to puzzle 10657
Across
1Standard names used for cheese (8)
5Live in a state of unconsciousness with not a bit of cognisance. Looking back, it’s a bug’s life (6)
9Reason City’s (odd) steeped in holiness (8)
10It is found scattered around the banks of Ghaggar river (6)
12Essential to one even in India, a great developing country (9)
13Live happily (2,3)
14Cross emu with large bats! (4)
16Kudos! You finally cracked the puzzle (6)
18Nickel available in large quantity in Germany (6)
20Short European female servant (4)
23Chief eastern state (5)
24A cyclist’s starting off with a crazy acceleration (9)
27Desire a new t-shirt (6)
28Fresh Lay’s chip? For real? (8)
29Farm animals let out after onset of anthrax (in Connecticut) (6)
30Sad and idle for a long time (4,4)
Down
1 Ingredient of a soup — a staple dish (5)
2Welsh green energy perhaps (6)
3Boy left to stay in a boarding school (5)
4How to sit on a horse in one step? (7)
6It arrives through post from Lima? Strange system (4,5)
7Flags are flying — standards followed (8)
8Maintain a raised hairstyle (6)
11Missus gobbling a candy bar (4)
15Widespread in Terrible Ivan’s rule (9)
17Dog I categorise as a fighter (8)
19Poor writer (4)
20Case of Ron’s disappearance in Charleston — intriguing (7)
21In the middle of indigestion? Stomach upset? Call for this medicine (6)
22Maniac chops yank’s head off (6)
25Fabric from wool is legendary (5)
26Girl comes up short running a boutique (5)
