Across:
1. Footballer continued fish studies in UK horticultural competitions (4 4 7)
9. Give out again genuine sale item (7)
10. Vehicle starts unloading at this unknown republic (7)
11. Promote healthy skin at gym (4)
12. He left his mark by disembowelling raptor in wildlife enclosure (5)
13. Thanks team for transport (4)
16. Ten neat letters upset girl (7)
17. Change trains with a singer (7)
18. Go before nasty creep grabs journalist (7)
21. Author initially hangs on for every boy to find character (7)
23. Initially every kitchen’s egg dumplings were rationed (4)
24. Smiles at old carrier’s paperwork (5)
25. Wellington’s trunk (4)
28. Remove from pamphlet (7)
29. Record one left for second-rate imitator (7)
30. Novel new treatment of bat in neater home (5 3 2 1 4)
Down:
1. Trap thin dry bees somehow as a yearly gift (8 7)
2. Make more pointed rewritten phrase appear before mid-morning (7)
3. Cabbage drink after work finishes (4)
4. Rebuilt the pool in depression (7)
5. Leads new song about vicar’s return (7)
6. Place for offensive (4)
7. Issuing from guy captivated by English social worker (7)
8. Boss gets ten chaps with time to hold one section flat (6 9)
14. Absolute idiot loses head (5)
15. Nears dismantled trap (5)
19. Steeplejack is before Charles on hill (7)
20. The Chosen One’s supporter follows star, endlessly turning round (7)
21. Ancient city’s glory before start of eruption on one island (7)
22. Circles around toilets carrying Rex’s drink (7)
26. Celebrity leaders of football are making enemies! (4)
27. End up holding cold mineral (4)
Solution:
BESTKEPTGARDENS
I=H=A=O=O=A=M=T
REALLOT=VANUATU
T=R=E=H=E=K=N=D
HYPE=ZORRO=TAXI
D=E=U=L=N=S=N=O
ANNETTE=SINATRA
Y===T=====A===P
PRECEDE=PERSONA
R=R=R=L=O=E=L=R
EKED=BEAMS=BOOT
S=C=F=C=P=M=R=M
EXTRACT=EPIGONE
N=O=M=E=I=C=S=N
THREEMENINABOAT
Name: Puzzle 482
Author: by Steve Townsend

Annos-Across:
1. (George) BEST (= Footballer) KEPT (= continued) GAR (= fish) DENS (= studies)
9. REAL (= genuine) LOT (= sale item)
10. VAN (= Vehicle) U(nloading) A(t) T(his) U(nknown)
11. H(ealth)Y PE (= gym)
12. ZO [R(apto)R] O (= wildlife enclosure)
13. TA (= Thanks) XI (= team)
16. ANNETTE (anag ten neat)(anagrind = letters upset)
17. SINATR (anag trains)(anagrind = Change) A
18. PREC [ED (= journalist)] E (anag creep)(anagrind = nasty)
21. PER (= for every) SON (= boy) A(uthor)
23. E(very) K(itchen's) E(gg) D(umplings)
24. BEA (= old carrier) MS (= paperwork)
25. Double Def
28. EX (= from) TRACT (= pamphlet)
29. EP (= Record) I (= one) GONE (= left)
30. THREE MEN IN A BOAT (anag bat in neater home)(anag = new treatment)
Annos-Down:
1. BIRTHDAY PRESENT (anag Trap thin dry bees)(anagrind = somehow)
2. SHARPE (anag phrase)(anagrind = rewritten) (mor)N(ing)
3. (wor)K ALE (= drink)
4. POTHOLE (anag the pool)(anagrind = Rebuilt)
5. GO [VER (= REV reversed)] NS (anag song)(anagrind = new)
6. Double Def
7. E(nglish) MAN (= guy) ANT (= social worker)
8. STUD (= Boss) IO (= ten) A (= one) PART (= section) MEN (= chaps) T(ime)
14. (n)UTTER
15. SNARE (anag Nears)(anagrind = dismantled)
19. ERE (= before) C(harles) TOR (= hill)
20. ELEC [= CELE(b) reversed] TEE (= supporter)
21. POMP (= glory) E(ruption) I (= one) I(sland)
22. O {LO [R(ex)] OS (= toilets)} O (= Circles)
26. F(ootball) A(re) M(aking) E(nemies)
27. MI C(old) A (= AIM reversed)
Defs-Across:
1. UK horticultural competitions
9. Give out again
10. republic
11. Promote
12. He left his mark
13. transport
16. girl
17. singer
18. Go before
21. character
23. rationed
24. Smiles
25. Wellington
25. trunk
28. Remove
29. second-rate imitator
30. Novel
Defs-Down:
1. a yearly gift
2. Make more pointed
3. Cabbage
4. depression
5. Leads
6. Place
6. offensive
7. Issuing from
8. flat
14. Absolute
15. trap
19. Steeplejack
20. The Chosen One
21. Ancient city
22. drink
26. Celebrity
27. mineral