CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. News magnate chases short Hibernian author (4,7) 9. Reboot computer’s front-end potentially takes days (7) 10. Humble rank briefly limits Bill (7) 11. Look both ways (3) 12. Help to keep roller in good condition for attack (3,4) 13. Golf in Essex requires subtle skill (7) 14. Remains of firewood (3) 15. Heard Scandinavian stoop (5) 17. Mainly puzzling burial place (5) 18. Girl who performed on ice with Christopher D? (5) 20. American tucks into his fancy food (5) 22. Morrison’s transport (3) 24. Recite angler’s problem? (4,3) 25. Slight small building society maybe (7) 26. Paintings are not finished on time (3) 27. Mechanical unit replacing energy in sort of 9 (7) 28. Perhaps a dish girl sent back after soldier (7) 29. Take away old supporter, one seized by judge (11)

Down

1. Being alike, their angle can be adjusted (15) 2. Awful boring ad, not good, located in Hull (7) 3. Irish Sea seals stuck in mud (5) 4. A gain specifies English penalty to block leftists (9) 5. Like grain cultivated with oxygen and carbon? (7) 6. Judge disallows this head case in every broadcast (7,8) 7. Composition supplied by Brahms on a tambourine (6) 8. This prince, gouty, replaces ‘nutty George’ (6) 16. By that very fact, it emerges from lips of actors (4,5) 18. Twelve people not all fair about first of remanded men (6) 19. Dance infuriating Westport right away (3-4) 21. Cold drink I created, working without recipe (4,3) 23. Architectural style of new rebuilt manor (6) 25. Celeb entertains one part of flight (5)