CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Theresa organised whip round for meteorology vessel (7,4) 9. Opener everyone retracts, taking time in bar (4-3) 10. Dashed back at speed to tell story (7) 11. Occasionally being important (3) 12. Like some biscuits or current credit conditions? (7) 13. How Cleo’s lover’s name appears in list? The opposite (7) 14. It’s not clear I’m following director (3) 15. Finished entertaining king and queen’s mate (5) 17. Stroppy Londoners overwhelm cable supporter (5) 18. Back exercises include low sound and beat (5) 20. Famous person returns to be lecturer, part-time (5) 22. Twitch now and then (3) 24. Name the new greenhouse gas (7) 25. It carries weight, heard at closing time? (7) 26. Trainee leaves marine mammal where it is (3) 27. Bar employees in UK company working in film studio (4,3) 28. Studio anchor nearly making mess in suburbs of London (7) 29. Clearing up former 23, removing tension (11)

Down

1. 26 animal must long to keep old droopy hair (6,9) 2. In commercial can’t I broadcast cure for indigestion? (7) 3. Spouse’s plump, beginning to go off (5) 4. Began dancing in stream to jog memory (4,1,4) 5. Sports car that’s difficult to park at first (7) 6. U.S. detective ransacked Hamilton’s place about noon (15) 7. Boiled ceps I’d given exotic flavour (6) 8. Guy in Bonn supplies cattle trough in part exchange? (6) 16. Musicians in new arrangement of ‘Carthorse’ (9) 18. Bottom of glass comes off in fall (6) 19. A small change in energy in first course (3,4) 21. Game in Dublin strangely left out African country (7) 23. Commanding officer only confused settlement (6) 25. A thick piece picked up in wood (5)