CROSSWORD

Clues across

1 White male unable to be reformed on the outside (7) 5 Gives up again and draws back (7) 9 Prong used on a bothersome fungus (5) 10 Finer body when retrained becomes steady (9) 11 Can active ingredients prevent disease? Yes (9) 12 Good man goes behind tree to begin with (5) 13 A branch of the Muslim Brotherhood insiders (4) 15 Keep failing to finish with toy boy in tumble (4,4) 18 New beginning for Laotian organisation as a political party (8) 19 A sailor comes back with a crimson bloom from New Zealand (4) 22 A member of the football team by surprise (5) 24 Circus apparatus strange to the grip (9) 26 Law-abiding voters ban broadcast (9) 27 Pitchers put sheep at risk oddly (5) 28 Strike with a slack attitude, lickety-split (7) 29 Spot on strangely about noon and around the clock (3-4)

Clues down

1 Participating in the fourth part of a play, Sartre’s last (6) 2 Porcelain on a bench I repaired (4,5) 3 La Bohème goes around a US city (5) 4 Statesman has banks near collapse (9) 5 Frost recited some poetry (5) 6 Royal Navy figurehead in red or blue starch (9) 7 Gloomy physician joins Listener (5) 8 Teased terribly yet dignified (6) 14 British form a connection with English revolutionary of limited vision (9) 16 Confused in the glen? Clear it up (9) 17 Text madly about unsettled character, an outgoing sort (9) 20 The French smell you are texting for work (6) 21 Bungle when cat turned up under me (4-2) 23 A teller of fabulous tales with a topsy-turvy attitude (5) 24 Organise today for a crawler (5) 25 Note one German link (3-2)