CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Eat slices cooked in study, bought here? (12) 8. University medic in Lagos ignoring last complaint (7) 9. Tax man’s wrong about Castletown’s top moggie (4,3) 11. Appropriate business fancies somehow saving time (10) 12. Ring round head revealed by encephalogram (4) 14. Get used to brief charge to front of Margate (8) 16. What’s oddly impressing magistrate? Affection (6) 17. Friend left after secretary (3) 19. Nonstop rumours circulating around City (6) 21. Pair set out in rain, running along river bank (8) 24. Looking back, wrong doing’s not recorded (4) 25. Personal problems Lynn and I tried to get sorted (5,5) 27. Cover European novel edited by priest (7) 28. Victor gets stuck into rare garlic mayonnaise dish (7) 29. Chemical decomposition transforms soil secretly (12)

Down

1. Hellish day I took part in last month (7) 2. Camouflaged bug infects ploughed meadow first (4,6) 3. Two cutlets — and be quick about it! (4-4) 4. Fruit that’s excessively dull inside (6) 5. Vocal piece that’s taken up by cognoscenti (4) 6. Cry out: ‘Surpass objective, ignoring English!’ (7) 7. Battered and bruised, like NZ and Scotland players? (5-3-4) 10. Fiercely batter tin with a hand tool (5,3,4) 13. Bacall rumpled Gardner’s headgear (10) 15. Spoil most of planet (3) 18. True sound of the seashore (8) 20. Five then six appear in true evangelistic meeting (7) 22. Rock that’s potentially ingenious but not popular (7) 23. Swimmer cured person in bed? (6) 26. Allies obstruct broadcast (4)