The Cryptic
ACROSS 1. Beginning and end of Labor – return to square! (5)
4. Donald Trump’s base instinct in the current circumstances (9)
9. Well-presented Guinness – but a wise guy (5,4)
10. English – skeletal, hard and black! (5)
11. Make it safe – follow around right (6)
12. Heaven is in March (8)
14. A drug and sexual relations – the most basic level! (10)
16. Break over pots (4)
19. Bun or turnover? (4)
20. Venetian marble, perhaps – but it’s a dead end (5,5)
22. English viceroy, firm for a vegetable (8)
23. Toboggan may kill, they say (6) 26. Bird, an enormous being (5) 27. Advertising in favour of the formal proposition (9)
28. Role with a bird, working for the classic temple (9)
29. Mother with a rider – it can make you ill! (5)
DOWN 1. Col Green upset. Just a hanger-on (9)
2. Collect for a service (5)
3. A star – The Gaul, he’s called! (8)
4. Lacking colour – when exiled, he’s beyond it! (4)
5. Attractive – even bewitching (10)
6. Diamonds on your bonnet in the deepest north (3,3) 7. Movement in upended PNG port – very moving! (9)
8. Herb asks for a date (5) 13. Revolving fastener – but it’s just a kitchen tool (7,3)
15. Gorilla at war with another savage beast (9)
17. Public communications – surprisingly happy ones! (9) 18. Delivery returned to man in Rabat – a place to dance (8) 21. 150, move slowly and cautiously – hold on! (6)
22. Dine high, dine fast (3,2)
24. 999 include Spanish God – but it’s just a way of talking (5)
25. The time of day is up and down, back and forth (4)
Solution next week