CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Team poet’s hirsute growth (9)

6. Colourful bird originally making a harsh cry (5)

9. Indian city taken in by ill-defined plan (7) 10. Element one past student initially identified among miners (7)

11. Emit shrill sound, having twisted foot?

(3)

12. Breaking ice on, and in, a vast expanse of water (6,5)

14. Variable lodgingplace, one by entrance to auto plant (6)

15. Polly abandons island for a place in the Low Countries (8)

17. This writer refuses to accept singer’s distinctive property (8) 19. Slate someone acting ineptly? (6)

22. Sort of roast coming? It’s to do with good eating (11)

23. React emotionally when retired manager loses son (3) 25. US president introduces embargo primarily affecting Japanese craft (7) 27. Young chap entering libertine for run (7) 28. Do taking place with team leader in charge (5)

29. Eg fungus identified by secret symbol, right away (9)

DOWN

1. Sortie requires 500, not 50, in the centre, alas (5)

2. Unemotional father framing “Head of Egyptian God” (7)

3. Pub sibling drinks in: a sign of shame once (3,8)

4. Relief provided by Yankee on sea at first (6)

5. Partially composing a blessing apt for vocal performance (8)

6. Low state of mind duke’s shaken off (3) 7. Asian revolutionary accommodating fashionable French art (7)

8. Seducer’s old way to cross country river (9) 13. Completely unrecorded by bank? Emphatically not! (2,2,7)

14. European in spot gets confused about current spirit (9)

16. Like some poetry? Briefly stay around a New Zealand area (8) 18. Oriental festival supported by unspecified number

(7)

20. Greek character flies over wild horse (7) 21. Obsequious sergeantmajor and his sphere of influence (6)

24. Ray biting tail of another fish (5)

26. Part of circle talking of animal rescue vessel? (3)