CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Record spinal problem? (7,4) 9. Expert in fix issued threats (7) 10. Partially hide where TV dinner is located? (7) 11. Theme music too much for Oz native (3) 12. Studio swallowed story ending in USSR (7) 13. Cook wades round estuarine fringes, gathering this? (7) 14. Best spinner (3) 15. One better than a birdie in Gleneagles (5) 17. Table salt arrives wrapped (5) 18. Weight of stone is an incentive, some say (5) 20. Supply witty comment on the internet? (5) 22. Tease member (3) 24. Colonial worker pursuing Quaker’s standard (7) 25. Support protects a soft young tree (7) 26. Snake makes regular appearances in Aesop (3) 27. Eccentric author defends European writer in US (7) 28. Free fifty-one arrested by old official (7) 29. Fay gets nervous girl protective material (6,5)

Down

1. Open on same court roughly at same time (15) 2. Automated device’s prominent feature in West (7) 3. One of the Snakes as well as some of the Ladders (5) 4. Tense French painter supplies bride’s clothes etc. (9) 5. Veto stops furniture retailer arranging flowers (7) 6. 100 relics lost to me — sadly they may be rare (10,5) 7. Influence writer’s agreement (6) 8. Miss Muffet’s companion saw her, as reported (6) 16. Change gear to tease relative (5-4) 18. US author’s books concealed by cloak (6) 19. Each fellow pursues duck thief (3,4) 21. Dad nurses harmful little growth (7) 23. Landmark, British, being overhauled (3,3) 25. Shoot when it appears, ignoring note (5)