SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Snags in contracts (7)

5 Summon the courage to get one’s salary increased? (5,2)

9 How you forgot you had a number to spare? (5)

10 Gave one’s opinion of the forced sale to the dogs (9)

11 Reach, turning, at the girl on the outside (6)

12 I stop playing about during take off, as is fitting (8)

14 Open - and about time (5)

15 Seeing the sky is getting better? (7,2) 18 Yearn for fruit: something exotic (9) 20 Bone from a bird father found outside (5)

22 Is it possible for one to have the odd rest with tea? (8)

24 First paint the border throughout (6) 26 Left or was forcibly removed (6,3)

27 Yes, to start with everybody is calm (5) 28 Don’t agree the working dentists should get time off (7)

29 Dead beat, the fellows went in and changed (7)

DOWN

1 Exultant, pour out a hock during the house-work (4-1-4)

2 You buy a ticket for it and tear off the top (7)

3 She’s performing in “2” (9)

4 Don’t go right in to get the waif (4)

5 Game barely lost (5,5)

6 Miss Gold held up the set (5)

7 Prepared to fly off in it (7)

8 Over a quarter are artificial (5)

13 Left or wasn’t left unsaid (7,3)

16 Get cross while I have fun playing; wildly irate (9)

17 Showed the two men being taken to harbour (9)

19 Perplex one and that’s no advantage (7) 21 Did vaguely say a member of the family was hurt (7)

22 Managed to get the fish, a tope, to drop in (5)

23 The kid was unbalanced, we’re told (5) 25 Not taking up the post in Sicily (4)