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Across
- 1. Actor he paints badly (8)
- 5. Method is said to be crude (6)
- 10. Song in basic Italian tune (9)
- 11. Everybody's time to play! (5)
- 12. Before a meal? Grace! (6)
- 13. Odd code, odd protocol (7)
- 14. Later settled in court, crushing defeat (8)
- 15. Seal top of the cabinet (6)
- 18. Intense fire raging outside, 5 dead (6)
- 20. Right, insincere heroic talk, basically it's hyperbole (8)
- 22. Ballet position one's in with ease (7)
- 25. Old students from university in Milan maybe (6)
- 27. He's a bibilical character, a slave (5)
- 28. Anyhow, meant to keep correct change (9)
- 29. Best place in France, small town basically (6)
- 30. Repeated it time after time to the editor (8)
Down
- 1. Take up just one instrument (4)
- 2. Fungus that's rare perhaps (9)
- 3. Nobleman in a boat (7)
- 4. A very old drink from the South containing primarily citrus fruits (8)
- 6. Visual movement in gemstone (7)
- 7. Run a machine without starting the spinning device (5)
- 8. I'm acting strange, in the end turning out to be mysterious (9)
- 9. Main element (4)
- 14. Very small shift — infer what? (5-4)
- 16. Strict line taken by hospital department (9)
- 17. The space is shabby and most shoddy (8)
- 19. Setter, seated bemusedly, thinks (7)
- 21. Loud noise coming from below after the cut (7)
- 23. Flower, one in demand, it's going up (5)
- 24. Style adopted by some landowners (4)
- 26. Detailed analysis for a poker game (4)
Published - March 21, 2018 12:05 am IST