Crossie #13

Prepared by Tony Sebastian

Across

1 This is torture! The game is tied with one portion remaining (4,3,7)
8 Dread of loud music close to hearing device (4)
9 Bruiser has gone out for atomizers (10)
11 Intend to injure, cut off head (3)
12 Tight rope walkers? Blistering barnacles!! (9)
14 Largest possible quantities of dress with mother (6)
15 Flashed for a restless despo needing pointless sex badly (7)
18 Do good for our best friend (3)
19 Ruler makes a fashionable return with muscles (7)
21 Former girl friend strokes NRIs, for example (6)
24 Supposedly friend sits around a broken ledge (9)
26 Quarrel, say with a Greek character (3)
27 Dismissed after six deliveries. That’s all (4,3,3)
29 Ascend without head and arm? (4)
30 Destroy something as trivial as a dot also on the way to profit (5,4,5)

Down

1 Too fed up to dine due to failure (6)
2 Will a communist have this blood disorder? (7)
3 Two of the same kind need some subduing (3)
4 Myth about the city hero (5,6)
5 Strange, outré path … (5)
6 … and French pipes form distinctive cultures (7)
7 A step with one leg on each side (7)
10 Compel to review blog, i.e. (6)
13 A first innings advantage attained due to a bad shot? (7,4)
16 “Dad, give cash for a fruit” (6)
17 A cry escapes the cryophysics experimenter due to madmen (7)
20 Though not an expert, a friend you are, I say! (7)
22 Interim arrangements for railway stations (7)
23 Warhead used in fight decapitated animal (6)
25 Go back to a shopping centre for an animal (5)
28 America joins the east for some purpose (3)