CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wrongly accuse rebel European in famous trial (5,7) 8 Adversaries see mine exploding (7) 9 Wrap English novel condemned by priest (7) 11 Are furious crazy forty-niners after this sort of rock? (10) 12 Leave team in

sci-fi film (4) 14 Reserve driver perhaps for literature lovers (4,4) 16 Do idle cobblers employ daughters? (6) 17 Regularly doing

some excavating (3) 19 Minor contribution from aftersales service (6) 21 Perhaps 14’s meeting-place shook terribly during dance (8) 24 Look after a small amount of old money? (4) 25 Expert could make

nice profit (10) 27 Formal dress torn

around end (7) 28 Piece of film for presenting top-class gallery (7) 29 Right clients ordered

pig’s innards (12)

DOWN

1 What’s said on leaving more than half of cheese and port? (7) 2 Free of disease, United host leaders of Notts Forest then City (10) 3 Cover hours wasted in terminus (8) 4 French engineer said to be quite a sight (6) 5 Diplomat shuns old cardinal sin (4) 6 Relative, sacked, became less tense (7) 7 Robert and Paul managed over a mile in first carriage (12) 10 HM stops old PM rambling and drumming fingers? (6-6) 13 Barrister has to display print (10) 15 Boys Brigade possess one that’s worn by occupant of 7 (3) 18 Pick up wood then fall over backwards at first, trying to hit this? (4,4) 20 Marine animal not found originally in fancy sushi (7) 22 Mostly attend to fruit and calls from farm (3-4) 23 What worms do with

their cast (6) 26 Smart trap

catches one (4)