Across

1 James –– (1765 - 1832), historian born near Inverness, best known for his Vindiciae Galliae (1791) (10)

6 Picturesque village by Loch Lomond, the setting for the TV soap, Take the High Road (4)

10 Popular tourist centre in Perthshire, which featured as Tannochbrae in the TV series, Dr Finlay's Casebook (9)

11 Uniform, or in just proportion (5)

12 Diminish in quantity, value or strength (6)

13 A bishop's stall or throne (7)

15 The hanuman of India (6,3)

18 A wood nymph in Greek mythology (5)

19 A hanging screen of tapestry for a wall (5)

21 Teetotaller (9)

23 A whitish mineral (silicate of aluminium and potassium) (7)

24 Set characters for printing a second time (2-4)

27 In commerce, a place in the market not subject to the normal pressures of competition (5)

28 An ordered confusion (mus) (9)

29 Port and capital city in the Middle East (pop around 500,000), a trading centre since Roman times (4)

30 John –– (1925 - 88), Labour politician who was tried on fraud and embezzlement charges and imprisoned in 1976 (10)

Down

1 Smallest of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides (4)

2 The space between the intestines and the body-wall in animals above the Coelenterates (5)

3 A canoe waterway in Brazil (7)

4 Style of architecture (Late Perpendicular) (5)

5 Drinks of white wine mixed with soda water (9)

7 Citizen of South American country (68,063 sq miles; pop around 3 million), liberated in 1825 (9)

8 A skin disease affecting the hocks of horses (10)

9 Failed to fulfil or justify (6)

14 A South American genus of shrubs of the Saxifrage family (10)

16 A fiery-red precious stone (almandine or precious garnet) (9)

17 A supposed mark of dishonour on a coat of arms (her), apparently never actually used (9)

20 A red-bellied terrapin (6)

22 Site of an ancient town in Asia Minor, located in the present-day Turkish province of Isparta (7)

24 Obsolete term for the trimming on a gown (5)

25 A highly-spiced Eastern dish of rice with chicken, meat, etc, boiled together or separately (5)

26 Japanese seaport (pop 1.5 million), devastated by a major earthquake in 1995 (4)

Last week's solutions

Across: 1 Shinwell, 5 Forres, 9 Tarlatan, 10 Psyche, 11 Ebenezer, 13 Inmost, 14 Ray, 16 Ankara, 19 Spigots, 20 Carpet, 21 Hob, 26 Pinter, 27 Newburgh, 28 Anorak, 29 Flounder, 30 Tasman, 31 Indented.

Down: 1 Settee, 2 Israel, 3 Weasel, 4 Leaper, 6 Opinons, 7 Rectoral, 8 Sceptral, 12 Rangoon, 15 Apt, 16 Ate, 17 Ice-plant, 18 Araneous, 19 Serenata, 22 Berlin, 23 Objure, 24 Credit, 25 Shared.