CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Plump for vocal turn on voting register (9,4) 10 Personal identity was one megaflop! (5) 11 A late brew served in cups and saucers? (9) 12 Introduce object with fist in the middle of gut disorder (9) 13 Initially simple, then difficult, piece (5) 14 Altered dosage for Poseidon, say (3,3) 15 Substitute mother to run sweet operation (3,5) 18 Expecting too much from total received through ill-gotten gains (8) 20 Superior vessels at the start of King Lear’s play (6) 23 Confounded with boundless open vault above (5) 25 Commonplace to place capital some distance from the equator (9) 27 Again, come off as a narcissist (9) 28 Leading lady to take single step (5) 29 Electrical fault hardened and became fiery (5-8)

DOWN

2 At any rate, put mucky sweat into songs (9) 3 Farewell may raise the spirits of ten (7) 4 Rowing crews ignore new leader in spirited contest (6) 5 Taken by surprise by a military leader and done in (8) 6 Works, as a fisherman does, on reportedly genuine error (5,2) 7 Reptilian ate miniature climber (5) 8 Show him the door light (4) 9 Gratuitous to torment Hitler’s bodyguard (8) 14 Bathed on jetty where it’s more waterlogged (8) 16 Send back to school after turning a buck with acute difficulty (2-7) 17 Service intoned outside, quietly, at the death? (3,5) 19 Might blonde have one of the best addresses in London? (7) 21 A new suite’s under discussion (2,5) 22 Powder made some metal cumbersome (6) 24 Crack his head over his aversion to work (5) 26 Pull in listener with first bit of the news (4)