TRLHS crossword January 2025

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Across
  1. 1. [and 2 down] Who said "I am just going outside and may be some time"1 (8,5)
  2. 4. Speed of sound unit (4)
  3. 5. Dreadful (10)
  4. 9. See 18 down
  5. 10. Mutter (6)
  6. 11. A subterfuge (5)
  7. 12. To unwind, HERMAN POGO listened to one of these [anag.](10)
  8. 13. Energy of the sun (6)
  9. 15. To understand that it's 6ft (6)
  10. 16. See 28 across
  11. 19. A ball of thread might sounds like this (4)
  12. 22. Laying waste (9)
  13. 24. A type of boat (5)
  14. 25. Tease (3)
  15. 27. Mad (7)
  16. 28. [and 16 across] Who wrote "To see a world in a grain of sand" (7,5)
  17. 30. Ghost (7)
Down
  1. 1. Back ache (7)
  2. 2. See 1 across
  3. 3. Some people frequently drop these (7)
  4. 6. Destination of the midnight choo-choo? (7)
  5. 7. 'That's a cliff? - your kidding me' (5)
  6. 8. Who referred to Hitler as a "blood thirsty guttersnipe"? (9)
  7. 10. Scanned at the checkout (7)
  8. 14. Not exactly circular (6)
  9. 16. See 29 down
  10. 17. ... my dear Watson (10)
  11. 18. [and 9 across] A phantom builder might use one of these 1
  12. 20. Main course (6)
  13. 21. Lightest metal, used in batteries (7)
  14. 23. Between 'this & that' (9)
  15. 26. Constant of a circle(2)
  16. 29. [and 16 down] Who wrote "While stands the Colliseum Rome shall stand" (4,5)