-Prepared by Tony Sebastian

Across

1) Criminal no one backs with a strong belief. (10)

6) Rule in the north about a grass bed. (4)

9) What the cinema would have had when it was closed for renovation. (2, 5)

10) City in the US that was fashionable some time back? (7)

12) Lost his wicket, but continued? (6, 2)

13) What judges an event, may be a slab of window glass with student! (5)

15) Picture in a picture, a 100 short of being a pest! (5)

17) Cuts off connection from abuses which Assistant Engineer takes in. (9)

19) Praised Pa in a good way and get lost! (9)

21) Mossad hunts down an ascetic holy man. (5)

23) Arrived at a ring for a guest appearance. (5)

24) Undoes teaching and leaves a mode of transport. (8)

27) What a gossiper would do with some new information. (4, 3)

28) A strong metallurgist? (7)

29) Run with a lot of creative product? (4)

30) The kind of cricketing shots that an ogler may play. (3, 7)

Down

1) Stick for the first killer we hear. (4)

2) Gets cozy with more than one kit-kat may be. (7)

3) Alternative gets into a type of vine, could be what a tusk is made of. (5)

4) Trial run which TT revised dancing. (4, 5)

5) An extinct Italian language spoken in the nachos canteen. (5)

7) Once more, saint is opposed. (7)

8) Liquid food made as lots ring up after the pole. (6, 4)

11) Pierces with a sharp object as Instant message loses colour. (7)

14) We in short signalled and exonerated. (10)

16) Captain confused without the pole, gets a duck for a tuber. (7)

18) Definite object. (4, 5)

20) Rims Ali twisted of the same kind. (7)

22) Many CID are characterized by action. (7)

24) Girl in and around the Digital Library to dig into stuff. (5)

25) Greet by twisting a halo. (5)

26) Responsibility which lies with Uncle Sam? (4)