THE CROSSWORD 14152

Across

9 One has to restrict professor's leave (7)

10 Plans for a new outlet sabotaged at the beginning (7)

11 Dirty old book with picture (7)

12 Disregard criminal party, one without leader (7)

13 This leading prosecutor gatecrashed for pasta (9)

15 Ground rice in the silo basically (5)

16 Company returns to collect an animal for finding total weight of the species (7)

19 Avoid females or put up with (7)

20 Weakness is systematically concealed by a cowardly person (5)

21 Once, a Zimbabwean and a Greek character built a side with one player! (9)

25 Rules to stay indoors for some dogs outside (7)

26 Nominated a film cameraman, perhaps Edward (7)

28 Isabel, Eva, Teresa huddled inside lift (7)

29 Commercial I appeared in lens by introductions (4-3)

Down

1 Female caught a tailless rodent and became well-known (6)

2 Last piece of Lamington taken at Australia with decaf regularly

led to vomiting (6)

3 I don't laze easily, in the beginning it was opposite (4)

4 Poison in iron caplet? Purge stomach (6)

5 Lady cut short meeting captain for bad behaviour (8)

6 Overcoming resistance, advantage garnered by innovative group

(5-5)

7 Organise marriage with kinsmen regularly (8)

8 Appraiser of animals standing at front gate (8)

14 Perhaps Mercury's type of music (5,5)

16 New scales between B and F shown by a symbol (4,4)

17 In contact with Stokes's club, seen sacking captain, skirting rules in public view (2-6)

18 Urged son to keep hair tied in half (8)

22 Skipper of vessel expelled by seer (6)

23 Perhaps Eskimo arrests leading Thai suspect (6)

24 One who bares pundits brutally after overcoming pressure (6)

27 A gem at work, a leader of learners (4)