CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Hybrid language primarily involving

RAF slang, surprisingly (9)

6. Tasty juice a princess rejected (5)

9. One writing about air in distant planet (7) 10. Prepare for church, taking two sons (7) 11. Entice politician to visit Vietnamese festival (5)

13. Intended recipient of a frock, we hear — and points (9)

14. Agreeable set touring part of UK (9)

16. Item of footwear providing profit once? (4)

18. Land conservationists originally owned? (4) 19. Make fewer pronouncements, having no nationality (9)

22. Manufactured instrument mostly used before party (72)

24. Costly setting for king displaying dullness in poem (5)

25. About-turn protecting Latin here in US city (7)

26. Ossie leader heading off decrease in expenditure in bush

(7)

28. Old Abraham’s nephew returning for praise (5)

29. Revised pay and terms covering second intelligence boss (9)

DOWN

1. Frenzied religious leader leaves to collect a devotee (7) 2. A place to climb Mont Blanc, for example (3) 3. Bitten by bug, relative put on large glove (8) 4. A park initially accommodating a tall palm (5)

5. Everyone is upset about a small school’s tropical tree (9)

6. Dig sand lying principally around coastal resort (6) 7. Silence poet developed from an early age (11) 8. Difference of opinion when lineage is mentioned? (7)

12. Car a tripper used, missing old painter (11)

15. Stealthy son replacing Victor in arousing resentment (9)

17. Feud involving archdeacon, one with obligations, we hear (8)

18. Compilers initially clue it loosely as

"dead skin" (7)

20. One pursuing industrial action, attacking player (7) 21. Afterthought about green lost at first in urban development (6) 23. Lousy environment for king’s representative (5)

27. Small island rowing crew talked of (3)