Across
1 Uncommunicative and curt, ain’t flexible (8) TACITURN
5 Entertainer’s admission of being a drug-taker (6) AMUSER
10, 21 Dn. Complete freedom of action, not only for the French (5,7) CARTE BLANCHE
11 Shop assistant who may sell good sari collection (9) SALESGIRL
12 Peasants in the middle-east knock down a bird, pocketing note (9)
13 Code-maker who dropped a note from a feeling of guilt (5) MORSE
14 Security device for people directing movement of planes in the outskirts of Loughborough (5) LATCH
16 Would a professional decline into a pathological condition? (8) PROLAPSE
18 As GM, I do act oddly opinionated (8) DOGMATIC
20 Where in Africa can one get an excellent sweet round roll in return (5)
24 Be full of them to be lively (5) BEANS
25 A French duke in the custody of socialist worker? Not needed (9) REDUNDANT
27 Venus in Athens? (9) APHRODITE
28 A look at a part of the ship, originally oval (5) DECKO
29 Label going with package reconstructs 28 ahead of time (6) DOCKET
30 Runners wait for their orders (8) STARTERS
Down
1 What a diplomat has to be? (7) TACTFUL
2 Simple band, round thing, beginning to tarnish (7)
3 An enclosing sheath that he cares to conceal (5) THECA
4 Fungus formed round points gives a reddish-brown colour (6) RUSSET
6 Smell, fresh lemon or honeydew (4,5) MUSK MELON
7 The rider puts his foot in it (7) STIRRUP
8 Lever that is designed to take the burden off (7) RELIEVE
9 Kind of meeting open to all or only half the people? Never! (7)
15 One has to be late to get one’s name on it (9) HEADSTONE
17 Tumour, bifid or otherwise (7) FIBROID
18 Poor reverted worker was an expert (3,4)
19 Lucid symbolic diagram gets one cent (7) GRAPHIC
21 See 10 Ac. CARTE BLANCHE
22 They write to the French over a short spell (7)
23 First appearance at a commercial opening (6) ADVENT
26 The lowest point in a broken drain (5) NADIR
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