CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1. Crowd help poor individual to steal current device (6, 5) 9. Chum very nearly inspires a song and dance (7) 10. Inventor of jet engine let loose after holiday (7) 11. I’m surprised nerd isn’t finished (3) 12. Block firm overturning evidence about director (7) 13. What did ruler do? Spilt gin in grass (7) 14. Tips of plant, the camellia (3) 15. Animal fur is cut (5) 17. Very short river flowing west in Big Apple (5) 18. Put foot down about vice-president hoarding uranium (3, 2) 20. Prevent commercial director leaving (5) 22. Fellow features in books, frequently in poems (3) 24. Sly old foreign secretary accepts union for America (7) 25. I double over during exercises, getting praise (7) 26. Watch cup with ball in it (3) 27. Ready in Madrid once to put in vegetables (7) 28. English couple bags Irish land in Gulf (7) 29. Leader pages displayed U.S. emblem (6, 5) Down 1. Has ITV masculine plays for such sexist types? (4, 11) 2. Five caribou run out, dispersing camp (7) 3. How to describe some globular gentlemen? (5) 4. In which we drop dizzily at one velocity to earth? (5, 4) 5. It makes you cry, accepting sanctimonious view (7) 6. Anne fiddled with lie detector, producing pact (7, 8) 7. Decide to quit solicitor after work (3, 3) 8. Extremely lethal (6) 16. Adults swallow a single compound for pain relief (9) 18. Way to achieve international gym behind playground (6) 19. Constable’s one means of securing craft (7) 21. Doing business, run up stylish garment top (7) 23. For a laugh, wife abandons networking service (6) 25. Aerobics the night before are annoying (5)