Cryptic Crossword: June 2004


Across

See preamble (8,5)
10 Tree secure in one sheltered area behind church (5,4)
11 Instructor (5)
12 Deliberate (6)
13 Phase covering one period of prehistory (5,3)
15 Observe (3)
16 Avoid reversing in crowded avenue (5)
17 Hostelry (5)
19 Calls in the morning with energy in Nova Scotia (5)
21 Broadcast containing new point (5)
22 Before (3)
23 Son with upper-class competitor penning verse describing existence (8)
25 Crazy aide-de-camp dividing chart (6)
28 Express love, surrounded by immortality (5)
29 Tourist in shire gets excited (9)
30 Mystic sailor ordered to accept right award (8,5)

Down

Amicable (7)
Stern sage managed to achieve eminence (9)
Destruction (4)
Man beginning to tire in public, work being excessive (4-3-3)
Frequently disco's ending with loud number (5)
Take away editor upset over pamphlet (7)
Sour, start to complain during assistance (4)
Encourage (4)
14 Snake, in unusual case, in a lake (7,3)
15 Transgression (3)
17 Feature of church greeting change, we hear (4,5)
18 Recline (3)
20 Skill in small cocktail (7)
22 Hard to get into organization of secret engravers (7)
23 Salvage (4)
24 Tribe involved in historic enigma (5)
26 Separate (4)
27 Unsightly (4)

Solution