ACROSS
1 Talks to value a stately home (10)
6 Examine both ends of the street (4)
10 Smashing meal without a hint of pepper (5)
11 Glass making materials bend inside cover and become encrusted on a nut (5-4)
12 Gas heater gets slightly wet (8)
13 Strain as if to vomit again in front of the head of the church (5)
15 Stupid person to go quickly back to principal (7)
17 Managed without cancelling main movie (4,3)
19 Voters split about Independent in an Italian town (7)
21 Unbiased English novel (7)
22 Time in contact with a Muse (5)
24 A useless person is inactive before defeat (4,4)
27 Declaiming about a bit of rhubarb producing shoots (9)
28 Be off with a proverbial swearer without hesitation (5)
29 Dispatched perfume reportedly (4)
30 Doreen abandonned before Spring by a good-for-nothing (4,2,4)

DOWN
1 Mould discovered in shed (4)
2 Device one can develop within computer company (9)
3 Russian cloth (5)
4 Ungraciously curt worker on holiday (7)
5 Beat queen with something very big (7)
7 Demand and obtain old deed (5)
8 Most of them have a particular opinion about return of Rodin's statue (3,7)
9 Leo, for example, sings about holding animal back (4,4)
14 A quirky sea photo is a perfect example of its type (10)
16 Record island poet's final speech (8)
18 Girls not returning to eastern town (9)
20 One might be made by a cricketer performing with determination and ambition (2-5)
21 Club golfer's stupid mistake (7)
23 Essential to a pronghorn's protective covering (5)
25 Relinquish one's grip and allow to turn (3,2)
26 Olive's earliest friend is a gem (4)

4:26pm Wednesday 26th March 2008

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