Tickle your brain

A CROSSWORD TO PUT YOUR MIND TO.

Across

1 Potential 15 30 – Kiwis throw out 13,000 tonnes of these every year (9)

6 Originally described the sound of a bowstring after an arrow's been fired (5)

9 A slogan of non-violent protest coined by Allen Ginsberg (6,5)

10 A user interface such as Windows (3)

11 The subject of the End of Life Choices Act (10) 12 Incline towards, or nurse (4)

14 A parody (usually humorous) (5)

16 An o icial who can invalidate something (9)

18 “Wide-body” aircraft (especially Boeing 747s) (5,4)

21 “With ___ all sorrows are less” (Sancho Panza) – yet Kiwis throw out 15,000 tonnes every year as 15 30! (5)

23 A shelled marine mollusc, or a dollar bill in the US (4)

25 How we can turn some of our 15 30 into fertiliser (10)

28 A favourite Kiwi pastime – home improvements (3)

29 Renovation – also (UK historical) applied to the reign of Charles II (11)

30 See 15 Down 31 Deficits, as may occur after panic buying (9)

Down

1 People who use weights to improve fitness – or people who steal from shops! (7)

2 A lounge (even when not in the place described) (5,4)

3 A form of theatre derived from the Italian word for “work” (5)

4 To make something comprehensible (7)

5 Where logs and lumber are dressed (7)

6 An invention that made car and bicycle rides a lot more comfortable (4)

7/8 A 28 tool for cutting stone and metal (5,7)

13 “An arm and a leg” ? No, just one of them (4)

15/30 Scraps left from meal preparation, or that have spoiled (4,5)

17 Enumerating; making a list of (9)

18 A bird that appears in “The Magician's Nephew” as “the first joke in Narnia” (7)

19 Conceited and self-centred people (7)

20 City in northern Japan that hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics (7)

22 Marine mammals (known in Kenya as the “Queens of the Sea”) (7)

24 A bottomless gulf – metaphorically, depravity or Hell (5)

26 A literal angle, or metaphorical point of view (5)

27 “I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a ___” – Joyce Kilmer (4)