CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Oppressed, odd nerd drifted round townabroad (11) 9. Ball’s squashed into miniature chest of drawers (7) 10. French possess eight rebuilt military aircraft (7) 11. Siblings discarded flashy jewellery; one’s left (3) 12. Present, say, could be red, white or black in bed (7) 13. Glad pressure on student slackened off (7) 14. Person supplying answers also supplies wool, say (3) 15. Nine worried about union’s mood of lethargy (5) 17. He quits Chelsea, changing balance (5) 18. Chanticleer’s stuffed with caper (5) 20. Business magnate’s second to pull back (5) 22. A British seabird (3) 24. Basis of argument: property’s not finished (7) 25. Joplin’s music upset Magritte as tempo fell away (7) 26. Deer appear here and there in Rhodes (3) 27. Aga goes off once upon a time (4,3) 28. A time wasted round Co. Durham in early performance (7) 29. The short distance between David and Goliath? (6,5)

Down

1. Lime in rum deters tragi calcoholic suffering from this? (8,7) 2. On-line screen pay covers English petrol company (3,4) 3. Where lovers meet in Coventry Street (5) 4. Children not working well (9) 5. Depart from subject matter in archaeology outings (7) 6. I ask Santa for different present, getting polite ‘no’ (3,2,3,2,1,4) 7. Well-built pig-house has approval to store cycle (6) 8. Plod straight across suburbs of Dorking (6) 16. Chief anaesthetist? (6,3) 18. Answer’s in foreign paper, look (6) 19. One of the Marx brothers took silver in U.S. city (7) 21. New starter for 10’s more trivial (7) 23. Take another quick look up for guard? (6) 25. Defer responsibility (5)