SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The pooch looks out as one comes by (7) 5 No Constable but a phoney cop, I took the fool in (7)

9 For whom it would be wrong to attend a stag party (5)

10 With which the said foreign partner ended the game (9)

11 Notes in small writing (6)

12 Getting us twice to do it differently, being a keen pupil (8)

14 Such wines as the more thirsty like? (5) 15 Iron the dope’s mistakenly taken out when overwhelmed (9)

18 Meets, so the cogs never mesh (9) 20 Worries about Incas (5)

22 Impressed and solemn in the end (8) 24 Show you make lace, as well (6) 26 “Shoot the Copper” isn’t a work one can be proud of (3-6)

27 Take time off, dear, from business (5) 28 Hides and attempts to mislead one; mean, that is (4,3)

29 One of those peculiar things you see at a sale? (7)

DOWN

1 The map’s so bad the police backtrack from time to time (9)

2 From Italy and from China it comes (7) 3 Song for a flower-girl (4,5)

4 Negligent, losing a pound from the bag (4)

5 Does it create an awful predicament for the opposing rugby team? (6,4)

6 Hardened rotter shielding a heartless knave (5)

7 Reveals a figure in the darkness (7) 8 Begins by putting into a big enclosure (5) 13 The chap on the rack is a poet (10) 16 Delighted to sing one note in the finale (9)

17 Not fair to the lovely girl performing on set (9)

19 In the weekend case, that is the thing packed on top (7)

21 He got off here, you find, to go back (7) 22 Drive off at once, parking half a mile back (5)

23 What took one, seething, to the doctor? (5)

25 So the First Lady’s on leave (4)