CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Trusting Americans include new image with debtor’s notes (12) 8 Back away from alley cat, sick of milk (7) 9 Flats in countryside (7) 11 Cheese suppliers erase crime after reorganisation (10) 12 Manage to save one bankrupt (4) 14 Jet-setters may be in for this difficult task (4,4) 16 Stan’s chum follows constant shepherd’s assistant (6) 17 Incomplete satellite, 15 (3) 19 Sound horn at learner at the end of the drive (6) 21 Pursuing victory, king loses head facing breeze (8) 24 Write a story about the Orient (4) 25 Composer almost stops top mafioso for a drink (10) 27 Bulging small jumper perhaps, not old (7) 28 First sign (7) 29 Heathen erred badly in various places (4,3,5)

DOWN

1 Dirty article supporting relative (7) 2 Male travellers come up with hard drink for big swimmer (5,5) 3 One old mural’s spoiled place for tanners (8) 4 One’s taken to court and released (6) 5 Decorated using two kinds of diamonds (4) 6 Different entry in June qualifiers (7) 7 Do they lease highrise flats in capitals? (5,7) 10 Bet on drawing American song (6,6) 13 Good for saving time and allowing transfer of power (10) 15 Depression left old wife (3) 18 It may be used to portray sort of pintail duck ... (3,5) 20 ... duck with herons flying towards land (7) 22 Idiotic dog with no lead is running round inside (7) 23 What clients of 3 are doing, not all for what’s in drink (6) 26 Look into Home Counties fruit (4)