Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 27/09/2012

ACROSS

1 Scheme to prepare first allotment (4)

3 Raised up with posh pieces of music (10)

10 Start to advance, at present (9)

11 Artistic support for some modern ideas, elsewhere (5)

12 Watch, over time, sign for something to be inserted (5)

13 Follows top pilot in going into a dive (4-4)

15 Concentrated on part of the media in front of newspaper boss (7)

17 Is inclined to be ready, if handing things down (7)

19 Aim to have spirit close to the finish on board (3-4)

21 Will staff mature with the right leader? (7)

22 Use boat to run over anti-hunt protester (8)

24 Incentive to be smart in Hastings (5)

27 A part sailors had on deck (5)

28 Transferred one man to hospital department with some emotion (9)

29 Rule out nurses as local workers (10)

30 Old post for boss of the student association (4)

DOWN

1 Heads, we hear, show basic rules of morality (10)

2 Peripheral part of a drama about Erica (5)

4 Chased round one like one possessed (7)

5 Advance showing of President leading a military parade (7)

6 Head off to a Channel port, taking second bowling spells (5)

7 After finding one new species, I call it stimulating (9)

8 Was an old sea-dog in season? (4)

9 Shot out near a large body of water (5,3)

14 Gathered everything needed, in the end, to make concrete (10)

16 Try to get two hands to take in adult (9)

18 Wants to get some fruit in old vessel (4-4)

20 Seemed to have run off, having risen above the surface (7)

21 Would a soldier, in the main, run into a sailor? (7)

23 Turn in, at one time, carrying very little weight (5)

25 Still among the finer things in life (5)

26 Slap in the face depicted in local book (4)

Yesterday’s solution

Across: 1 Laugh out of court, 9 Gum tree, 10 Treason, 11 Terra, 12 Superhero, 13 Ill-will, 14 Subatom, 16 Elastic, 19 Marilyn, 21 Airmailed, 23 Besom, 24 Uniting, 25 Inn-sign, 26 Extreme measures.

Down: 1 Light literature, 2 Unmoral, 3 Herbalist, 4 Utensil, 5 Octopus, 6 Cheer, 7 Unspent, 8 Ten commandments, 15 Bare bones, 17 Airlift, 18 Cologne, 19 Mid-life, 20 Lustier, 22 Alike.