CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Deal with CID’s terrible record (7, 4) 9. Land ammunition on other side of Gulf (7) 10. Meals cooked right, about 1 000, getting cooler (7) 11. Pick spinner first to finish (3) 12. Record includes good trio playing image booster (3,4) 13. Target crude hut, adopting variable angle for surveyor (7) 14. Deep chair doesn’t have a back (3) 15. Cryptic solver forgets 5, so he doesn’t win (5) 17. Boy touring Channel Islands is wealthy descendant (5) 18. Lock fortress for going away (5) 20. Former partner in North America joined group (5) 22. Annoy a pooch, getting this reaction from it (3) 24. Bear, a most extraordinary companion (7) 25. Plantation owners living primarily in southern states (7) 26. Top and tail 7 the day before (3) 27. American cried about Trump, finally describing his hair (7) 28. Rebuilt street impresses posh person on board (7) 29. Peter ate ox cooked over charcoal (originally for spit) (11)

Down

1. Cleo must choose a whipped pudding (9, 6) 2. Mutt whose origin’s taking longer to unravel (7) 3. Old story-teller’s main revolutionary work (5) 4. She has made a will, irritating artiste in Texas (9) 5. It’s about short girl, emphatic type (7) 6. This suggests universal local meeting point (9,6) 7. Go back to earlier position, missing first exit (6) 8. This child, with mites, discombobulates misanthrope (6) 16. Fabricated new article in big town’s turned up (9) 18. Catch cold symptom and what’s needed for it? (6) 19. UK has managed to save energy and power for a change (5-2) 21. Sculpt St. Paul holding a painter’s tool (7) 23. Occupant of house crosses street to find badger (6) 25. Group to start fighting (3, 2)