Across 8 ---
Lane, beloved of Superman (4)
9 Wooden device on wheels used as a child's toy (10)
10 Capital of Chad (1'7)
11 Chronic disorder of the organs of respiration (6)
12 Sam ---, winner of 3 US PGA Championships (5)
13 Company which invented the video recorder in 1956 (5)
14 Killer whale; fierce monster; ogre (3)
17 Bathtub with underwater jets to massage the body (7)
18 Mexican liquor (7)
20 Tennis serve which wins the point (3)
22 Annual or perennial herb of the genus Ocimum (5)
23 Short musical composition or exercise (5)
27 A board set up by central government (abbr.) (6)
28 Guide dog breed; province of Newfoundland (8)
29 Part of Yugoslavia whose President is Milo Djukanovic (10)
30 Mickey ---, a doped drink (4)
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Down 1 Proverbially,
silence is this (6)
2 Plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable (9)
3 Any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks
so that they flutter in the lightest wind (5)
4 A religious sage or guru (7)
5 Verse line having six metrical feet (9)
6 Sweep's companion (5)
7 A small earthquake (6)
15 US poet indicted for treason in 1945 (4,5)
16 The German air force (9)
19 Small rural settlement (7)
21 Literary castaway (6)
24 --- Warwick, singer of many Burt Bacharach and Hal David songs (6)
25 Alan ---, English test wicketkeeper (5)
26 Home ground of Glasgow Rangers F.C. (5)
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