Cakewalk if compared with normal Scintillator standards. Quite a few Anagrams, don't recall so many in his earlier offerings.
ACROSS
1 Summarises engineers' limitations (6) RECAPS {RE}{CAPS}
9 Can splits deter a guy initially during courtship? (6) DATING {D}{A}{TIN}{G}
10 Depressed practitioner's working for a long time (4,4) BLUE MOON {BLUE} {MO}{ON}
12 Fantastic
sea view encompasses fifty
fish (8)
ALEWIVES {A{L}EWIVES*}
13 Account with tax entry (6) ACCESS {AC}{CESS}
15
Cure dirty
linen (4)
ECRU*
16 Research on chocolate causing
absent-mindedness (5,5)
BROWN STUDY {BROWN}{STUDY}
19 Sensational warning for Beckham? (6,4)
YELLOW CARD [CD]
20 Reports say ranks took up arms (4) ROSE (~rows)
23 Not quite a colour-blind individual (6) RACIST [CD]
25 Girl's
left out request for
falafel ingredient (8)
CHICKPEA {CHICK}{P
lEA}
27 Dream on wildly about love that's abandoned (8) MAROONED {MAR{O}ONED*}
28 Evacuated vehicle with two lives in distress (6) CRISIS {CaR}{IS}{IS}
30 Hushed voices from champion teams (6) ASIDES {A}{SIDES}
DOWN
1 Bureaucracy not just limited to communist states (3,4) RED TAPE [CD]
2 Car halted around St. Paul's? (9) CATHEDRAL*
3 Least significant digit? (6)
PINKIE [E]
5 Some members of revolutionary cartel irritate and annoy (4) RILE <=
6 Leaderless Congress, before start of campaign, is absorbed in a trying task (8) EXERCISE {sEX}{ER{C}{IS}E}
7
Ti
re
of
po
et regularly coming up with
cliche (5)
TROPE {T
i}{R
e}{O
f}{P
o}{E
t} Why 'coming up'?
8 Discharge from any stem transplant (7) AMNESTY*
11 Support CD broke into pieces (7) BEDROCK*
14
Black opponents of yore are
heavily disheartened (7)
SWARTHY {SWART}{H
eavilY} Not too sure of Anno.
17 Free of rivalry, popes undo conversion (9) UNOPPOSED*
18 Criticisms elevate excellent snaps (8) POTSHOTS {POT<=}{SHOTS}
19 A railway worker or a police officer in London? (7) YARDMAN [DD]
21 Slips by as sleep fades away (7) ELAPSES*
22 Money from unpleasant chores (6) OCHRES* Didn't get the connection to money?
26 Fruit peel, say (4) PEAR (~pare)
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