Harpy's Weekend Crossword

Across

1. Protection against COVID that vice can ruin (7)

5. 1.Across that came to Guyana by satellite? (7)

9. Most elegant Scottish girls in court (9)

10. Expert clad in an item of protective clothing (5)

11. Family feud where death kept in check, thanks (8)

12. Six take vehicles belonging to ministers (6)

14. List of people employed to catch old chicken (7)

16. Organised seminar to consider corpses (7) 18. Illness I lament miserably (7) 20. In such a triangle, can see line to be adjusted (7) 22. Eastern religion contributing to clash in Tokyo (6) 23. Ignore Jewish festival (8) 26. Contradict creed lacking initial faith (5) 27. Working poet I rave about (9) 28. Spectre ordering veneration (7)

29. Dank tar stirred in jug (7)

Down

1. Turned around AV service in disarray (4,5)

2. Country origin of COVID bringing up a group of shops (5)

3. Look at first of problem in cricket, say (7)

4. Voters choose to speak (10) 5. Eats out to fully satisfy (4) 6. Source of power university managed when first person not sure (7)

7. Countryman swallowing a bishop’s tale (9)

8. Rulers getting six to leave Scandinavian pirates (5)

13. Urge salesman to be a publicist (5,5)

15. Old life is transformed by Stabroek block et al (9)

17. Lead with top of weapon (9)

19. Ultimate portion of text remembered (7)

21. Sailors at Berbice campus decline to vote (7)

22. Like a judge in scruffy robes? (5) 24. There you are in France! (5)

25. Flightless bird caught finally in ditch around castle (4)