Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Baroque composer had role playing notes in some studios (8,5) 10 Cow, say, was an awful prude to enter courtyard (9) 11 Turn into tatters when returning to Demerara (5) 12 Bimbo is the one in charge of melody? (7) 13 Most he’d lost on various systems (7) 14 University clubs’ morning discharge (6) 15 Took in pliable tin edges (8) 18 Rider relaid pipe and spot marker (8) 20 Gushing hot water supply’s ending up in serge outfit (6) 23 Perceptive monarch accepted present (7) 25 Freethinker hates it breaking free (7) 27 Running through American in German capital (5) 28 State referee let out dumb moans (9) 29 Sketchers of the rear bride’s collections for her wedding (6,7)

DOWN

2 Transposition of letters has endlessly banal weight (7) 3 Comic character of clowns heal ruin, without question (9) 4 Half the pins went into tops on fatty bodies (6) 5 Early form of denim stuffed into furrow on the road (8) 6 Mozart’s third covered by record of a famous pianist (5) 7 Tap betting system of Spooner’s ship in the harbour (7) 8 Shade in the heart of Philadelphia quarterback (4) 9 Councillor posed as rude old campaigner (8) 14 Goes crazy as the Irish entertainment’s at a higher level (6,2) 16 Speaker said follow some make-up (9) 17 Parasite destroyed wing or room (8) 19 Reservation about using visor inside post office (7) 21 Seethe about large one on a diet (7) 22 Run off at the mouth about poker? (6) 24 Getting Ottawa to hold gold in bar form (5) 26 Pint-sized can with tacky bottom (4)