CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,358

Across

1 Spiritualist meeting held by wise ancestors … (6)

4 … sanctified and authorised by Church finally (8)

9 Increased taking exercise, tossing in sleep (6)

10 Time runs out to get final goal (8)

12 Properly in favour of male friend (8)

13 A new task detailed for newsreader (6)

15 Key spies blend in somehow, casing area (13)

18 Arrangement for auctioning rubbish (13)

22 Throw goes over pitch, getting obstreperous (6)

24 Rendezvous, embracing miss turning bare (8)

26 Case with a hole plugged by adhesive (8)

27 Group penning single’s making progress (6)

28 Distracted being buzzed during performance (8)

29 Scrounger that’s sometimes pickled in pub (6)

Down

1 Ill-feeling if rest gets disturbed (6) 2 Slur like individual swallowing last of Asti (9) 3 Apple company’s almost sluggish (7) 5 Aid by encouraging transgression initially (4) 6 Dirges using feeble notes, oddly (7) 7 Draw in chain holding hoist (5) 8 Delicate record – Queen support rises (8) 11 See this person in total heaven (7) 14 Dressed down in price, wearing sack (7) 16 Strapping body maturing (9) 17 One unwilling to strike poet that holds dagger (8) 19 Animal’s pong accepted by one elderly relative (7) 20 Love that is about solid, sort of? (7) 21 Book’s bound to be gripped in both hands (6) 23 Carry empty ‘Equalizer’ gun (5) 25 See stake mount up (4)