Alan Lee’s Cryptic Crossword: No. 894

Across

1 In book or awful C.D. baby

spoke (5,3,3) 9 Slink with bow. Start late

(5) 10 Dart holes ruined UK town

(9) 11 Reckless or rude outside

closed shelter (9) 12 Run towards north until gone

(5) 13 Woman has good new

reflection (4) 14 Troops seized our gun store

(7) 19 First class sects return to

island (2,5) 20 Verse includes one cartoon

dog (4) 24 Boozer to periodically cut

back (5) 26 Weird accent, apt to be

receptive (9) 27 Sweetbrier is strangely

inelegant (9) 28 Unusually, tell about college

material (5) 29 Valuations make some Nazis infiltrate resources (11)

Down

1 Quickest parliamentarian

entered a complaint (9) 2 Skin trouble? Telephone our

group (6) 3 Satisfied by water in southern

state (6) 4 Book examiners applaud it or

say less (8) 5 An ump wears one buskin, no

socks! (8) 6 Brute shows why a hood is

trimmed (5) 7 Resilient mole kept jewelry (7) 8 Odour from some returned

clothing (5) 15 Clumsily drape elms or other

trees (3,6) 16 Beast leases streams (8) 17 Discard sign from some stars

(8) 18 Musicians defeated the

French ( 7) 21 Infections from the past

(yesterday?) (5) 22 Go! Taking one last shriek (6) 23 Dinnerware ( including tea,

say) is perfect (4,2) 25 11th president added a dance

(5)