CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Track a sack and a vegetable (8) 5 Vegetable matter that’s decayed in back of auto (6) 9 One who seizes pursuer, beaten (7) 10 Child carried by mother or performer with a cape (7) 11 A health resort returned something for sweetening vegetable (9) 12 Perform amid 101 succulent plants (5) 13 Insect that buzzes around an indigo cap (6) 15 Spilled beer and fifth of Scotch on that guy’s pants (8) 18 Fusses about second-rate stew ingredients (3-5) 19 Pay no attention to Italian gent after introduction (6) 22 California company stocking a food-yielding pod (5) 24 Some veggies entirely eaten by younger family members (9) 26 Composer Charles goes around Rio playing piano keys (7) 27 Classic vegetarian initially eating nuts (7) 28 General’s accommodating with regard to salad makings (6) 29 Norm cuts veggies (8)

DOWN

1 Vegetable fight (7) 2 Pound front of the mound (5) 3 Pirate bit crackers in two pieces (9) 4 Refuse heartless mechanic’s place (6) 6 Excited article, with quirk (5) 7 Send out a message about chic new leafy vegetable (9) 8 Clues about large container for vegetables (7) 10 Unhappiness ruined my rise (6) 14 Vegetable gag prefaced with skill by yours truly (9) 16 Get plans confused about first of garden veggies (9) 17 Humiliates a quartet member about error (6) 18 Activity for travellers: walking around middle of Yukon (7) 20 Holidays spent initially in diners (7) 21 Lava is bad for flower (6) 23 Vegetable active in absorbing oxygen (5) 25 Took a picture showing African beast (5)