Financial Times Crossword No 10,105

Set by CINEPHILE

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S is not a good thing to be in

ACROSS
1 Toast for ancient revelry in church, not quite the thing for S (6).
4 French illness descends to the islands (8)
9 Steer finally into the S (6)
10 Non-U South American cowboy absorbing first to last page of S (8)
12 Fish, skunks, newts, owls, etc, taking S etc (8)
13 His stage could be a ground (6)
15 The transport that makes one complain bitterly (4)
16 The road home - the right one - for S (10)
19 S goes to gaol - no move possible (10)
20 Auntie facing both ways (4)
23 S for the drug period (6)
25 Coppers taking doctor to the 'Queen, maybe iced for S (8)
27 Read "The Battle of S" (8)
28 Relating to molecular structure, Morecambe gets canonised (6)
29 A lot of grief about 10 being damaged in Italian resort (8)
30 What's new about having little money? (6)
DOWN
1 S the red-backed dog (7)
2 Customary acquisition (9)
3 Sort of S, nothing to a vulgar blockhead (6)
5 A style that's gone (4)
6 Notes to Roman governor: remove cover (8)
7 Nearly half the S is water (5)
8 Company in sudden increase of affliction (7)
11 Effect of trismus expressed in platitudes (7)
14 Imaginary body with low-class newspaper (4,3)
17 Part of speech (part of oration) in one that's domi-nated (.9)
18 Iris, the European needed to raise standards (8)
19 Snake sects strange view's (7)
21 S for Short, confined to bar-racks for a change? (7)
22 S mocked by dove (6)
24 Written orders must have a voice (5)
26 Afflicted with less than common name (4)