CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Trait of hard worker or condition of vandalised U.S. car? (12) 8. During High Mass a churchgoer shows derision (7) 9. Get ready to go out and win everything (5,2) 11. Screwed in tight, note, it may shatter (10) 12. Family eats large cooker (4) 14. Fatty food comes first for Marlene (8) 16. Do you have to break the law to acquire riches? (6) 17. King, for instance, produces a lot of beer (3) 19. Eagle circling main road finds stoat (6) 21. Poke around spot that’s advertised (8) 24. Study temperature in small crater (4) 25. First Bill of Rights set out in Act (anagram) (5,5) 27. Young man at first tackles faulty radar, part of yacht (7) 28. Everyone stopped working outside and hung about (7) 29. Formal event with roasted sheep, diamonds and ring? (5,7)

Down

1. Lambast recent English comic playwright (7) 2. Taking out cover again, restoring confidence (10) 3. Spill milk over Ernie’s mate, making funny lines (8) 4. Ball fits in this — hitit hard, I’d say (6) 5. Coward maybe overlooking middle of book (4) 6. Star set up old timer (7) 7. For a fast start washdays need to be rearranged (3,9) 10. Data records creating chads CPU nerd sorted out (7,5) 13. Italian food, cold in minced liver and lime (10) 15. Formerly cool man on piano (3) 18. Mother’s father’s Greek as well as her husband (8) 20. Henry VIII for one dis solves Roman church (7) 22. Sailors, stylish in drag, doing the twist? (7) 23. Who may spread crop stacked in barn? (6) 26. Airmen time makeshift boat (4)