CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Poor cadet welcoming unlimited

offer is not genuine (8) 5 Humiliated by answer when

caught in bed (6)

9 Vulgar predilections absorbing the

French (9)

11 Call to mind almost always

covering fine (5)

12 Liberal American needing alias

for capital (6)

13 A scented flower forest,

one in Georgia (8)

15 Earth should be scattered by shelter in white shiny material (6,7)

18 Fixed a paper handrail with no end of aid and equipment (13)

22 Honour given to copper twice right for being as cool as this (8)

23 Write quickly seeing son move

like a baby (6)

26 Exhausted, ringing

endlessly (3,2)

27 Mounted soldiers covering old

actor’s way in (5,4) 28 Designated fashion centre of

Windsor (6)

29 Operator will guzzle starter of

these fish (8)

DOWN

1 Animal worker before eastern

European uprising (8)

2 Tight son refuses to eat (5) 3 Stopping shortly

to register (5,2)

4 Flush from corporate

venture (4)

6 Extent of suspicion

about Democrat (7)

7 Rogue doctor accepted by

newly-trained counsel (9) 8 Spinner sees heroic exploit cut

short in front of bird (6)

10 Brine causing wet areas to be

redeveloped (8)

14 Dancing shoes for people who

trip? (8)

16 Best friend will eat one cold, in

current fashion (9)

17 Caught Weasley maybe,

pinching old Scottish pot (8) 19 Tale of chivalry in court (7) 20 Switch leaders of ill-defined

industry such as this (7) 21 Refuse fights (6)

24 Area with intimate dwelling (5) 25 Transport military arm, thinking

originally (4)