CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Where to learn to help cynic after training? (11) 9. See bachelor in valley inspiring affection (7) 10. Some prefer ruler’s support for tip (7) 11. Elusive little fellow primarily (3) 12. Yarn supplied b least satisfactory journalist (7) 13. Noble, unusually elated, receives kiss (7) 14. Occasionally greasy fish (3) 15. Bone perhaps left in fried rice (5) 17. Stone exit added to rear of villa (5) 18. Ambassador placed back in a state (3,2) 20. Dorothy controls former disc store (5) 22. Secret agent employs tracking device (3) 24. Fatty Arbuckle originally posed with one, wobbling (7) 25. Pirate has twisted pipes (7) 26. Belgian town leads to special protection area (3) 27. Point mike at a suspect (4,3) 28. Ordinary article found in house (7) 29. Some believe this fine new decree needs adjusting (6,5)

Down

1. In dire need, very skint, crept off with nothing (7-8) 2. Throw rest away as sea food (7) 3. Duke goes after quaint material (5) 4. Old females in church rejected puce demitasse (6,3) 5. Five enter magical Narnia to find paradise (7) 6. Order cold mature trial to be judged by army (5-10) 7. Black look from German hiding depression (6) 8. Sewer bug (6) 16. Sam and Daniel tormented philanderer (6,3) 18. Stop hospital hiding theatre’s ultimate condition (6) 19. Mundane flawed comic operas come off (7) 21. Walk over rickety counter (7) 23. Joke about Anglo- Saxon bishop and chatterbox (6) 25. Such a vocation involves chaos (5)