CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Flexible music group that holds things together? (7,4) 9 Controversially certify remedy (7) 10 Big tent, brand new, with no fringes (7) 11 Silent parent (3) 12 Snack’s prepared, so eat it! (7) 13 Posh girl carries uniform as a rule (7) 14 Section of fertile area (3) 15 Religious scholar’s rare books kept in capital (5) 17 Recall island’s fur supplier (5) 18 In middle of pedicure trouble returns, related to pelvis (5) 20 Debtor accommodates new proprietor (5) 22 It keeps one warm in game by disappearing! (3) 24 Prohibit hunt without society feast (7) 25 See old church inside, crumbling (7) 26 A single note written in Old English (3) 27 Barbecue topside of beef then more nuts with no carbon (7) 28 Sign of spring that’s found on the doormat (7) 29 School handed trike? That’s generous (4-7)

DOWN

1 Yell ‘Goal!’ (11,4) 2 Pilot a group from Moravia to Russia (7) 3 Your old Middle East culinary ingredient (5) 4 Service company and labour group hosting 2000 (9) 5 Warm inlet turned up weapons (7) 6 Stand-in drove fast, like shooter on the Glorious Twelfth? (6-9) 7 Harsh tedious activity in laboratory picked up (6) 8 Input data again in its entirety perhaps (6) 16 Stripper massages brow with cloth (9) 18 Take in writer’s handbook learner ignored (6) 19 Reprimand public sale after 100 moved to the front (7) 21 It was read once to mobs in port, with discretion (4,3) 23 Lots of people crammed in here got the shakes (6) 25 Smith felt unwell standing up (5)