CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Swam with fish in a sea (6) 4 Was keen to change small imperfection (8)

9 Rogue in court is confident (6) 10 Biased worker follows quietly (8)

11 Mouth of a fast river (8) 13 Hard cases suffering on board ship (6)

15 Indecent playing alone in tub embracing blokes (13) 18 Thoughtless prisoner lies about pinching book (13)

22 Long garment about one’s middle covering rear (6) 24 Disturbed by new blue clothing United (8)

26 Strangely true, lady is cheating (8)

27 Drive’s opening more frozen and more dangerous (6) 28 Driver conversely first on second tee (8) 29 Capital’s power remnant European Union rejected (6)

DOWN

1 Rogue artist’s style is detailed (6) 2 Former support to include Queen’s Treasury (9) 3 Sweetheart’s suspicious catching betrayer’s mistake (7) 5 Produce from European cow, perhaps (4) 6 Going after equipment, start to cook chicken here? (7) 7 Artist’s apparatus left holding up edge (5) 8 Forbidding nun to keep fashionable (8) 12 Arbitrary component of error and omission (6) 14 Material from The Yorkshire Post? (6) 16 Live around winter’s end, a creature’s living (9) 17 Deny detective’s restrained person detaining one (8) 19 Disappoint somebody mad supporting son (7) 20 Stockade maybe is more exposed blocking raid, oddly (7)21 Get together a band for the audience (6) 23 Initially, first response usually isn’t ‘tomato’ (5) 25 Love god is tender on rising (4)