CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Back complaint causing erratic reproduction? (7,4) 9. Substance used in tests on spy (7) 10. Girl who’s engaged in café wasted energy (7) 11. One absolute fool primarily (3) 12. Back seat passenger is initially sitting beside large cat (7) 13. English saint in big house produces book (7) 14. Letter from Homer in Memphis (3) 15. Kelvin and Ruth knocked back grilled food (5) 17. Omit parts of words in novel I’d edited (5) 18. Left port in Yemen fully loaded (5) 20. Large instrument needed for part of body (5) 22. Record over old clip (3) 24. Young swimmer a little pale (7) 25. Change travel to and from work (7) 26. A couple of difficult words (3) 27. Remote small building society perhaps (7) 28. A German chap gets promoted to top boss (7) 29. TV company fights over first royal buildings of prominence (11)

Down

1. See shopping centre noted headland’s narrow view (5-10) 2. Officer in Kitzbühel provides somewhere to skate (3,4) 3. Don lay down occasionally (3,2) 4. Carrier supplies pudding with crumbly bagel (6,3) 5. Visualise one magazine without first and last letters (7) 6. Places to find Tom Collins with a screwdriver (8,7) 7. Tailless bird and young animal appear (4,2) 8. Greatly admire head of state avoiding setback (6) 16. Based on medical statistics, it decays with microbe (9) 18. Most recent development in Seattle curtailed (6) 19. Number operating 24. hours for 12 (7) 21. One arranged to defend pit candidate (7) 23. Go after US writer’s literary work (6) 25. Charlie rounds up butterfly (5)