CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Is doing big trips round Luxembourg, not helping (11) 9. Cautious priest turned after Reformation (7) 10. He drinks a lot and he rewards waiter about a pound (7) 11. Rocks kill (3) 12. Behave boisterously or go round lake at speed (7) 13. Developing new way up (7) 14. Source of metal in 2 coins (3) 15. Such a noise envelops Far Eastern capital (5) 17. Those with energy sent to front? That’s the spirit (5) 18. Carry money as an object of veneration (5) 20. Drink/s got cold – flinch (5) 22. The point of rejecting old-fashioned hairstyle (3) 24. Foreign seaman I brought in shows memory loss (7) 25. Tool to repair a ship, casing it in willow bark? (7) 26. Pub’s almost empty (3) 27. Left in charge of old colonnade (7) 28. Start song outdoors in it (4,3) 29. One of those united females in greatest organisation? (11)

Down

1. Doctor reddens with blue tone ofsuch puns (6,9) 2. Best wishes daughter’s received from Stockholm (7) 3. Printed cloth’s not good in new kitbag (5) 4. Aim for home stretch, say (9) 5. I’m over the hill in culde-sac (7) 6. Old Ken hangs head, sacked? This’ll keep him going (6,9) 7. Poor alternative to European capital (6) 8. Good Indian instrument’s picked up for nothing (6) 16. When it won in 1997, union got drunk with brown ale (3,6) 18. Vagrants cover miles in scattered parts (6) 19. Fruits of the forest provided to fine dog (7) 21. Famous rapper’s money replaced by National Theatre (7) 23. English composer had written off for ideal example (6) 25. Unjustly treat grown up (5)