Across
1 Behold: rugby player in passion play (4,4,2,5)
9 Unusually large kind of car (6)
10 Violent Mars has people rush to war (4,4)
11 Sitcom family, quintessentially British rogues (8)
14 It’s useful for hacking, chesty spasms (6)
17 Doctor to ring West End tourist attraction (7,6)
20 Right now, manic child on the edge in the middle of shut-eye (2-2-3-6)
23 My surgical procedure on Dalai Lama ultimately leads to complaint (6)
25 Strapping thing’s backside hit hard (4,4)
28 Head of Germany, Europe’s troubled conscience (8)
29 I’ve changed in the nick (6)
30 Novel clinical relief work in field (4,7,4)
Down
2 ‘Work over, beat up’: boxing spelt out essentially (6)
3 Dreamt up a Koons retrospective seen to include bust (5)
4 Consent given in Gretna Green (5)
5 Poet changing yen for krone remains a poet (5)
6 Siemens turns out to be a curse (7)
7 Twitchy, very neurotic primarily? (5)
8 Staggered around etc, drunkenly getting back in (9)
12 What to do with a car wreck, specifically (2,3)
13 Produce sounds like a fishy collection (5)
15 Position of Gibraltar endlessly the thing under discussion (5)
16 Columbus is at sea, leaving British behind, in work of Franklin (4,5)
17 MD: dictation regularly registers that which has been said (5)
18 Appearance of chaps on the radio? (5)
19 Bound, we’re told, to give hope (5)
21 Get ready to lift the elbow (5-2)
22 Sharp cleaver clearing area (6)
24 ‘Phosphorus (Pb)’!? Offer something in excuse! (5)
25 Parody sending up France: oops (5)
26 For example, Colman’s factory’s contents (5)
27 Brusque barrister (5)
Published - May 11, 2019 04:05 pm IST
