Complete Clue List
Across
4. An event, usually a live performance (but it's no gag)
8. Dilemma, discombobulation
9. Pertaining to something that originated in a foreign land
10. Light wind ostensibly from the west OR a British Ford model 1950-1972
11. When someone is given too much help without making enough effort themselves (they won't starve)
12. Able to be tampered with to reduce or debilitate its function or effectiveness
14. Marilyn Monroe - Tony Curtis movie (definitely not set in Alaska). "Some Like ____" (2,3)
15. Kathmandu residents for example
18. Big speakers for a sound system (but they sound like dogs)
21. Henrik, a Norwegian who likes looking for "Ghosts" in a "Doll's House"
22. Memento or small item kept in memory of the person who gave or originally owned it
25. Green chilli, medium heat, but changes its name to huachinango when it ripens to red
26. Something tangible that can be seen and touched (that is not at all subjective)
28. Smelled really, really, badly
29. Red or grey with a bushy tail
30. A really, really big acorn
Down
1. Bones of the upper arm, one for each side (but it's definitely not funny)
2. Small unit of imperial measurement (which desperately wants to become a 'mile')
3. Croatian capital
4. Nomadic people (not to be confused with tramps and thieves)
5. Indigenous American leader (no truth to a rumour he yelled his own name when jumping out of a plane)
6. Uses the gearbox to decelerate a car (don't try this on an automatic)
7. Top-rated hotel description (4-4)
12. Covered vehicle for goods transport (that likes to drive 'Down the bright side of the road')
13. Unscrupulous money lenders (that take a big bite of interest) (4,6)
16. The new Trucial States collectively or a major world airline
17. An oblique remark usually hinting of disparagement or suggestiveness
19. Litigious girl's name
20. Sea between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and Hokkaido (yes it's tough but this is a double pangram)
23. Mass departure (of biblical proportions)
24. A German cake (sounds like where it was baked)
27. Scottish island (that sounds like a courtroom civilian sifting evidence)