SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Flier of the rerouted plane I caught in (7) 5 Wound, then miss, with the weapon (7) 9 Wear, but it’s artificial (3,2) 10 ‘Spot’? (5,4) 11 At lunchtime the boy will be round for the allowance (6) 12 ‘Too young for the nude turn,’ you fume (8) 14 Let out the sealer right away (5) 15 Went back and gave out about the damaged tree (9) 18 Is his ticket a funny green one? (9) 20 Fools the work-man holding it (5) 22 Puts as a background to the murder in the vessels (8) 24 Needing the doctor - badly? (6) 26 Pulled up stakes, it seems, being changeable (9) 27 I do squeeze into it, like a fool (5) 28 Prison and the cane constituted expiation (7) 29 Scowled, but reduced it (7)

DOWN

1 Is it made of sheet-metal? (5-4) 2 Making it late - about one - when she appears (7) 3 Stick around: sounds like Chinese (9) 4 Turn up, to find slugs (4) 5 Isn’t a new job guarding one of the many shops (5-5) 6 It’s talked about by the more heartless (5) 7 Insisting it was the first insect to appear in the garden? (7) 8 The foreigner is for a day confined in quarters (5) 13 A shade better than most in intellect and sport, is he? (6,4) 16 What one’s aiming for with the finale not far away? (3,2,4) 17 Lost a turn, indeed, and is most unhappy (9) 19 By mistake, the child gets into (5,2) 21 As before, I’m standing up again, by the chief (7) 22 Dismiss as ‘a remnant’ (5) 23 Pretend to take the pupil to school (3,2) 25 Hero who still gives one the old thrill (4)