DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Height of a horse in a spin (8)

5 Splendour of attraction surrounding good man (6) 10 Transfer club’s leader in business agreement (5) 11 Starting school with conversation and gender reassignment (3,6)

12 Fury dogs English leader in the country (4) 13 Seaplane floating by wreckage (6,4)

15 Follow commercial in stage production (6) 16 Guard put off about termination (8)

19 Entitled to mix one blend (8)

20 Grout left in new rifle (6) 23 Energy cracking stopper on spice containers (6,4) 25 Lean over register (4) 27 Auctioned off scholarship (9)

28 Tedium of endless tennis outside centre court (5) 29 Push loose head and dig in (6)

30 Of men and poor salesmen (8)

DOWN

1 Lunacy and folly in disorder (7)

2 Risky playing tune in car (9)

3 Powder seen in continental chemist (4)

4 Cast aspersions on sunlit parts (6)

6 Squalid niche in guy’s building (10)

7 Dish out a hiding and leave dance (5)

8 One who puts up sweetheart with clergyman (7)

9 Enthusiastic former partner mentioned in literature (7)

14 Delayed reaction to a scene with a stuntman? (6,4) 17 Department head leads union in delaying tactic (9) 18 Praised remedy to depression (7)

19 Quick to put into words

(7)

21 Keeps rates in exchange (7)

22 Some poetry sat uneasily with All Black ace (6) 24 Rustled up lot for a heavenly body (5)

26 Fair to include central heating in charge (4)