CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Visit, going? Cancel it! (4,3) 5. Diana and Stanley start talking in an aloof sort of way (7) 9. Timber, in the main? (9) 10. Constructed, but it has to include the Italian (5) 11. Softened by Sappers Leonard and Edward (8) 12. Timber from stem to stern given run-around by skater (6) 14. Towards the mouth, drive worn out (4-5) 16. Girl I grumble at, going back (5) 17. It’s a crime for Mrs German on 1st December (5) 19. Undergoing grief’s fun? Surely not! (9) 21. Make oneself liked and finish up with a listener (6) 22. Rules of action show I have abandoned receipt in afterthought (8) 26. All players play, all singers sing ‘Tut!’ when it comes back (5) 27. Houses 500 well: sing about them (9) 28. Imprisonment in olden times: rude can describe it! (7) 29. Leather works for Anne: attempt to get around her (7)

DOWN

1. Drink detectives accept with hesitation (5) 2. Brought down by illness, produced eggs from owl, perhaps (4,3) 3. Frequently belonging to ‘X’? (5) 4. It takes cut blooms to provide wolves with fare (6-4) 5. Father has nothing on when it runs round the room (4) 6. Solid worth of bus can set it awry (9) 7. Musically agitated, go at it: a change is required (7) 8. Not going steady, child? No ‘H’ in the ring (9) 13. Promotion in church would rather have men at table-top (10) 14. Fed up with Celt, editor maybe turned aside (9) 15. Emission of rays turns into a raid (9) 18. He verifies accounts of UDI in a rocky height (7) 20. Encroach on little devil in, for example, turning up (7) 23. Boy, is that the Virginia quail? (5) 24. Being pert in America, says, the South is misplaced (5) 25. Nothing to do with one being led astray (4)