The Daily Telegraph Crossword no 21,544

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ACROSS

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1 I apologise for breaking pomander (6,2)
5 A bishop just must be cheerful (6)
9 Gets sparkling, low-alcohol drink (6,2)
10 The star is in the limelight -and quite right! (4,2)
12 Dan pouted in distress when rejected (9)
13 In any case, those are the revailing attitudes (5)
14 Confront a fellow-expert (4)
16 A leaned man is wise to get his pound of flesh (7)
19 Conductress has to trim the pastry (7)
21 Support a Verdi opera (4)
24 Subject from a Belgian province (5)
25 Pitmen are wild-really wild (2,1,6)
27 Supplied-with a summons? (6)
28 Local owner employing a lot of colliers (4,4)
29 It reveals the bare essentials (6)
30 Agitated appeal to be mor energetic (8)

DOWN

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1 Stop going to and fro (4,2)
2 Cheap paper carrier containing jumble (3-3)
3 Barbecue party is better (5)
4 Canadian lawman's moment to loose the bonds (7)
6 Checked that the ironing had been done again (9)
7 Suffer from cephalalgia, but make progress nonetheless (3,5)
8 Drunken gents drowned in wine cask of metal (8)
11 He occasions a furious comeback (4)
15 Pat and Ernest have split up now (2,7)
17 Family member consumes all the vegetables (8)
18 Daughter is relaxed, but full of complaint (8)
20 Wickedness quick to be shown up (4)
21 Man needs a woman without sex appeal (7)
22 Resist giving operation to model (6)
23 Old bangers many costs (6)
26 Happening to find an outlet after June's end (5)

Solution No 21544