Across
- 3. Keep going with grades, just one more to go! (4,6)
- 4. A trough for the french to eat? (6)
- 8. Vessel rusts, it's probably the beers! (4,4)
- 11. Seasonal songbird pinches a trinket (6)
- 16. Pouring out of an unnamed liberal state? (8)
- 17. Strain to become tyrants in vain? (13)
- 18. Anonymous jailer deals in lira?(6)
- 21. Small stacks of breathers (6)
- 22. Server moonlighting as Simpsons assassin?(9)
- 23. Carelessly losing English Christmas drink (4,3)
- 24. Farmyard animal painlessly finds the Spanish container (6)
- 25. Jump across stream to find oily aromatic (3,7)
- 26. Wealthy poet failed second grade, so became landlord (7)
- 28. Not in charge of glassware?(5)
- 29. Tenth beer for a short king (4)
Down
- 1. Winged creatures around American southeast find somewhere to rest on the go (3,4)
- 2. Len rips badly, must be the beer! (7)
- 5. Lady Grey appears on time working behind the bar? (5)
- 6. Richard eloquently asked Linda about Leo's expected initial beer (4,3)
- 7. Flower recently discovered along green lanes (3.4)
- 9. Fix temperature after 45 minutes, only a little bit! (4,4)
- 10. Margaret sat up to set an example? (6)
- 11. Some hesitation in ordering refreshment? (6)
- 12. Namesake may get boring (4.2)
- 13. Animal sounds indicate a woodworker? (6)
- 14. In favour of short division, finding company for fizzy drink (8)
- 15. Terrible espresso contains grounds (4)
- 19. Timeless privateer has first dibs drinking beer (3.3)
- 20. That bimbo Maxy could be an exotic treat? (6,3)
- 27. Refurbish composer's tankard (6)