Crosswords Set by: Boatman Sat 5 Oct 2024 01.00 CEST Prize crossword No 29,506 Print | PDF version | Accessible version Set by: Boatman Sat 5 Oct 2024 01.00 CEST Download the Guardian app for a better puzzles experience Download the Guardian app for a better puzzles experience Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Special instructions: A dozen of a kind are missing from their clues’ wordplay. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Across 7 Biographical novel with no big characters and limited in scope (9) 8 The cards show Boatman joining Murdoch title? On the contrary (5) 9 Dishes from where dishes come from (9) 10 Snake undergoing surgery by knife (5) 12 Types books? (6) 13 Determined position of editor: wrong about nurse (8) 16 Familiar textile designer reportedly was obliged to pay source of charged material (7) 19 Section of low wall (7) 22 Notes sequence of moves in opera about horse, opening in Italy (8) 25 Use calf, ham: emit skinless sausage (6) 27 Unforeseen problem for church (5) 28 Profits from imperfect markets are about: boast about it (9) 29 Daughter of Vandyke, perhaps (5) 30 Riotous Assembly follows a constable’s initial induction: it’s shocking (9) Down 1 Threaten to take on Boatman: it’s hard work (6) 2 When they say life begins: key to their confusion (8) 3 Some pay dividends on board (6) 4 Return to city of legend (7) 5 Conquest of the heavens (6) 6 Prompt service assistant (6) 11 From a place in Africa, cycling to a place in South America (4) 14 See 17 15, 16 Country house, somewhat dilapidated, at Chatham (6) 16 See 15 17, 14 A1 vessel? Mine capsized (6) 18 End of empire for former head of state (4) 20 Liable to get reaction from each and every other merry grinch (8) 21 Work together to create script for ceremony (2-5) 23 You are upset over climbing rose? (6) 24 Election: Colombo regime all losing heart again (6) 25 One drinks too much from tap (6) 26 The antithesis of a son of a gun (6)