Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 03/09/13

ACROSS

1 Dreams can be a madhouse in which Death plays Pied Piper (5,7)

9 Spoilt truffle makes one vexed (7)

10 Miscellaneous poetry put in wrong form (7)

11 Regular turn given up by astute Tory (4)

12 Is this cabbage served in London hotel? (5)

13 Benevolent sort (4)

16 Diplomacy shown on French island that’s touchy (7)

17 When the fly’s squashed, physician should proverbially heal (7)

18 Angrier fuss about being in a job (7)

21 Bell sappers saw as imaginary danger (7)

23 Bad habit of second in command (4)

24 French river, one running in two directions (5)

25 Play the ghost, beheaded, of relative (4)

28 Visit following punishment with cry of disapproval (7)

29 Arise from foreign letter being returned with signature (7)

30 About to get something nice, we hear, for chap in London shopping venue (6,6)

DOWN

2 Run past ice to make super-clean (7)

3 “Not hardy” — how the South is frequently characterised (4)

4 Enzyme discovered in Mediterranean island, one corner (7)

5 No member is involved in damage to fertilizer (7)

6 Sing for your supper at Black River (4)

7 Online test I have found stirring up feelings (7)

8 One in charge of feline will, they say, get so many cows (4,2,6)

9 You’ll have another chance if you fluff this at early Mass, perhaps (5,7)

14 Be small enough to belong (3,2)

15 In song, that she should be so lucky lies revealed (5)

19 One making another reference to authority — in poetry, perhaps (7)

20 Girl suffering Merlin as a trouble-maker (7)

21 Almost gallops hell-for-leather in trances (7)

22 Try to match bird that’s hopped the twig (7)

26 Stop first gun making a loud noise (4)

27 It’s more Scottish for scholar to be one who’s right (4)

Monday’s solution

Across: 1 Prefabricated, 10 Intervene, 11 Uncle, 12 Costume, 13 Leads to, 14 Nectar, 16 Esteemed, 18 Enriched, 20 Manner, 23 Tenders, 24 Ocarina, 26 Occur, 27 Originate, 28 Leading lights.

Down 2 Rates, 3 Formula, 4 Brewed, 5 Idealist, 6 Adulate, 7 Excisemen, 8 Misconception, 9 Record-breaker, 15 Chronicle, 17 Teaspoon, 19 Cheered, 21 Abating, 22 Social, 25 Inapt.