SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Imposing buildings with about a hundred fences (7)

5 A difficulty that could make mine dangerous (7)

9 Not the most attractive of vegetation, but it’s clean (5)

10 The necessaries to get mother sail-making? (9)

11 Locomotive is the one in Leeds being repaired (6)

12 Agreement at the bridge table? (8)

14 He’s willing to pay money for the cow-shed, we hear (5)

15 It’s not your team, old man (9)

18 He calculates roughly various times on the back of the list (9) 20 What babies do as a swimming stroke (5) 22 Plumbago that’s a success in the fruit cage (8)

24 What the violinist is practising - for the end of his recital? (6)

26 Given the job, as prescribed (9)

27 A carriage returning separately (5)

28 They provide cover for Edward aboard (7) 29 On the way notes mend in hat (7)

DOWN

1 Dance Pablo does in a funny way (4,5)

2 To a great extent a new form of allergy (7)

3 In the driver’s compartment getting member to sign message (9)

4 Amount of money paid, initially, for a reservoir (4) 5 Suggest place for hospital department (3,7) 6 Run carrying a card (5) 7 Quite insistent the girl meant a quarter less (7) 8 Franz was lean, it’s said (5)

13 Establishes educational organisations, perhaps (10)

16 Could make a change, hiding gold in an Alaskan location (9)

17 Then Nigel gets worried - put him in the picture (9)

19 Walk over the vessel the French put together (7)

21 Mean I’m also including inhuman types (7)

22 Tumbler seen in the mirror (5)

23 Raise a bit of a shout first (5)

25 Poetry Mussorgsky took to heart (4)