7a
For good measure blocks comic uses with gag to subdue backchat
(10)
11a
Stopping at Test ground into such a contest?
(11)
12a
Name assumed by rare black cuckoo
(3)
13a
Yard probing vulgar residue from power station
(6)
15a
A jolly playful nibble from Spooner!
(8)
18a
First on with broadcast
(7)
20a
But Rose is one of our best!
(7)
22a
Retired London lawyer has no time for model
(8)
23a
Unbridled lust of prominent American partner
(6)
27a
It's easy to confuse a chatterer
(3)
28a
Brush with groups of lawmen there for the taking?
(11)
29a
Hard to rip up books with covering letter for my boss
(10)
30a
It provides the necessary arrangement of keys
(4)
Down
1d
Cut squarely for two not hard to clinch ton - expecting a little lower?
(6)
2d
For which US writer overlooks essay?
(6)
3d
In retrospect someone partial to Prime-ministerial blunders
(5)
4d
Italian sauces giving us the constitution of candyfloss?
(9)
5d
Hotel laid on the works dinner in Oxford?
(4)
8d
Farm steward snarls with rage evicting owls
(7)
9d
Not a word one associates with hand rearing acacia?
(7)
10d
Publicises tour - and its point of departure?
(8)
16d
Train-spotters' gala perhaps elevating fellow most in need of support
(8)
17d
Factory that exploits reforms in two phases
(9)
18d
Jump between the sheets with energy for a **** (did you hear what I did there?)
(7)
19d
Surrealist seventies TV banned from art school
(7)
21d
Worth scrubbing jacket potato
(3)
24d
This chap's against prejudice
(6)
25d
Devious just like Serpent to keep one working away
(6)
26d
Online service given boost by messaging system
(5)
28d
The usual score when playing piano and horn
(4)
