Another tough call this week from the prince of the fallen angels
Across
1 Painter’s coloured in nonsense
BOSCH C in BOSH
6 Newspaper’s to follow the crowd
RAGTAG RAG+TAG
10 Drunk here, in midst of a great time?
BEERHALL (HERE)* in BALL
11 Prostitution no great deal for a guy
HARRY HAR[lot]RY
12 Soldier, perhaps, is gripped by afternoon passion
PISMIRE IS in PM + IRE pismire is an ant or emmet
13 Composer thinks etc in variation form
SCHNITTKE (THINKS ETC)*
15 Quantity of liquid waste, with no duplicate element
LITER LIT[t]ER
17 Railway worker to pay for ruse involving criminal mate
FOOTPLATEMAN FOOT + (MATE)* in PLAN
19 Requesting no money, speakers give boosts
INVIGORATORS INVI[tin]G + ORATORS
24 Tumulus? The writer’s around over the top
MOTTE OTT in ME
25 Respond excessively: nothing that should precede collapse of TV career
OVERREACT O (TV CAREER)*
26 Company right to bring in risky item: a comedian
CORBETT BET in CO RT
27 Seaweed left froth after ebbing
MAERL (L + REAM)<
28 English vicar supports homeless people?
EVICTEES E + VIC + TEES
29 Fish suitable for gull?
SUCKER to gull is to dupe or hoax
30 Intimidate head of prep school, calling yard in
PSYCH P + Y in SCH
Down
1 Part before accepting Shakespearian role?
BEHALF BE + HALF
2 Pub avoiding novelties for successful receptions
OVATIONS [inn]OVATIONS
3 Russian city council not half interrupted by a scoundrel
SARATOV A RAT in SOV[iet]
4 Erotic drawers no attraction possibly – see what I make?
CORSETIER (EROTIC [draw]ERS)*
5 Measure of clarity that’s involved in her elopement
NEPHELOMETER (HER ELOPEMENT)* an instrument for measuring cloudiness
6 Born again Christian initially under restraint – tar Dean converted
REINCARNATED REIN + C + (TAR DEAN)*
7 A scientific organisation is up-beat
ARSIS A RS IS
8 Small amounts are swallowed by small birds
TAITS A in TITS
9 Trick no longer played in card game
GLEEK double definition
14 Various tots elate – not us!
TEETOTALS (TOTS ELATE)*
16 Rough skill one displayed in artifice mostly
TARTARIC (ART A ) in TRIC[k]
18 Spy initially avoids suffocating with liquid refuse
MOTHERY [s]MOTHERY mother is a slimy mass of bacteria
20 Marine creature in two bodies of water nothing less
SEALCH SEA + L[o]CH
21 Latin speakers, very old ones, about to depart
VOCES V O [a]CES
22 Dry and fine after ten
XERIC X + ERIC eric is the blood-fine paid by a murderer to victim’s family
23 Rising saeter apparently reveals mountain edge
ARETE saETER Apparently <