Crossword

This week's puzzle

Across

1 Road skirting town in operation (6)

4 Offence in soccer or another game (8)

9 One stingy with grading possibly (7)

11 Titled person has some meat - it's steak (7)

12 Lacking 18 Down for seven days, we hear (4)

13 Not a hit? Wrong (5)

14 Perhaps stocking a pipe (4)

17 Corrected tax error in day - that's unusual (13)

19 Unfairly ban stammerers, creating unease (13)

22 Soundly beat young animal (4)

23 Some tuna's pickled in jelly (5)

24 Long for quiet at home before start of Easter (4)

27 A fool who holds evil is funny (7)

28 First off, ensuring reforms to caring profession (7)

29 A peer wanders around the border, but it's short- lived (8)

30 After a point fish stink (6)

Down

1 Forced Edwin into bed with plant (8)

2 Spectacle needs attendant social worker (7)

3 Girl's turned up with slovenly one (4)

5 A couple of idiots, I state, making a killing (13)

6 Move fast to back jazz form (4)

7 Saying sorry when a game starts getting yobbish (7)

8 Arrived at airport but left with journalist (6)

10 Marauder rages, struggling to find something sweet (8,5)

15 Talkative girl (5)

16 Reason for action around the centre court (5)

18 Might corsair be omitted from string orchestra arrangement (8)

19 Divorcee is given opening in Devon town (7)

20 English idiot misplaced new issue (7)

21 Initially private hire is to give satisfaction (6)

25 Business is solid (4)

26 Annoying child turns up in West Arbroath (4)

• This article first appeared in Scotland on Sunday, September 12, 2010