The Sunday Crossword No. 3082

January 11, 2020 04:04 pm | Updated 04:04 pm IST

Across

1 No date including ‘to be announced’ is acceptable (3,3)

4 Auntie with tiny antiquated computer (3,5)

9 Figure in Christianity, Father X’Mas, heading to North at the end (5)

10 Learner pulled into street, kept turning left, source of children’s amusement (5,4)

11 Say, are you familiar with goddess of marriage? (4)

12 Privacy regulation initially gets department panicking royally (4)

13 United overwhelmed by many hooligans (5)

15 Strange: Everyman’s turning into extremely blasé urbanite (7)

16 Cross-beam, just what doctor ordered (1-3)

19 Head of lettuce in oil lacking spice (4)

20 Slippery Gove circumventing Regina to add embellishment (4-3)

23 Old Opel needing starter given speed: va-va-voom! (5)

24 German hiding among grottoes (4)

25 Smoker about to open bidding (4)

27 Instrument you imagine is involved in heavy metal? (3,6)

28 Poet is on fire (5)

29 What might make you frigid and testy? (4,4)

30 City seeing wild Thebans losing capital in Boeotia (6)

Down

1 Is familiar with, they say, patient figures coming to surgery (4,4)

2 Volatile bituminate shedding casing to reveal element useful for aeronautics (8)

3 Source of French river is outstanding, outstanding (1-3)

5 Victorian figure, stimulating a Brexit, to do very little work (7,6)

6 ‘Gilded Mead’ brewed for 40-60 years? (6-4)

7 Try to impress bowler, perhaps, in prize competition (4,2)

8 Wise, capable of most points of view? (6)

10 Dry tone affected by rogue comic character (6,7)

14 Hot, Everyman’s wearing lingerie in period after midnight (5,5)

17 Childcare specialist went berserk, sure to be replaced (3,5)

18 Man-eaters go back to get topless clothing (8)

21 Work of art describing Jewish lawgiver (6)

22 Unprincipled city’s backing withdrawn from mayoral motion (6)

26 Kicking heroin habit for short while (1,3)

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