CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. A person’s own being feels no different (7)

5. They move arms (clue’s wrong in manuscript) (7)

9. A single throb from there could make a bat swerve (9) 10. Just the dance for a curious graduate (5)

11. Grew from Sylvan god, died without one (8)

12. Black, it’s called, by leek in TT variety (6)

14. ‘Homme’ to march North with Fen in disarray (9)

16. Evade Venice’s chief magistrate by getting about 500 (5) 17. Type to be a capitalist in Italy? (5)

19. The extreme will speak more than anyone else (9) 21. Fearful of a semi-Africa assistance (6)

22. Lodgings one cuts in half, and half again (8)

26. Cross one and tear about (5)

27. ‘Anti’ feeling gave Jude price-change (9)

28. Give one right to have tie with Lent upset (7) 29. Possibly deter about 2000 from having tramped and camped (7)

DOWN

1. Pigment it could be a chore to mix (5)

2. A ‘for instance’ was once plenty (7)

3. Conquered, beheaded, and consumed (5)

4. Strauss operetta might amuse Fred, about fifty (10) 5. Miss with a lisp? It’s not true! (4)

6. Give up unfinished county and end confused Right (9) 7. Held within bounds like a company? (7)

8. What shows balance ‘stet’ meant to change (9) 13. Something to play with: a formal record? (10) 14. Moulding the class, dined around four (9) 15. Self-assured, put trust in non-u nut (9)

18. Biting darn out in a word from the French (7)

20. Old boys like to swing around a tapering pillar (7) 23. Colouring the French red (5)

24. Starting price given at the finish, which will make payout (5) 25. One end of church to copy around the South (4)