CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Even take note of housing bill that’s prudent (5-6) 9. Character from Plato can make one slip (7) 10. Wagon on track switches positions, causing fuss (5-2) 11. Prompt line on radio (3) 12. Argue furiously about doctor’s offence (7) 13. Old golf club’s one book lecturer found in prison (7) 14. Tenants regularly take nourishment (3) 15. Different article seized by soldiers (5) 17. Dorset hospital preserves distinctive character (5) 18. Wrong sign for bridge (5) 20. Accuracy returns after dispensing with car plant (5) 22. Polish problem (3) 24. Employ complex radical material that’s synthetic (7) 25. Readable Spanish articles withdrawn about Gibraltar (7) 26. Fish shelter facing west (3) 27. Sheds perhaps a stolen mobile (4-3) 28. Rogue meets English woman outside school (7) 29. Mayor let rip at random, but not for long (11)

Down

1. Comforting school report contradictory without English? (4,3,3,5) 2. Roughly oval cone almost? (7) 3. Clean extraordinary old weapon (5) 4. Odd City Council and medical speciality in Morecambe (9) 5. Long-lasting large pub put up in proper environment (7) 6. Big Brother lady spent yen unfairly overcharging (8,7) 7. Study South American country’s energy (6) 8. Mostly exposed on board ship in winds (6) 16. What conjurors say when they work with ropes? (3,6) 18. Copper rod shortened on a small dome (6) 19. Sign Tommy’s ill, hiding onset of pain (7) 21. Stan leaves Asian country for money there (7) 23. Cheers extras at Lord’s (3-3) 25. Wool supplier upset a shopping centre in New York (5)