CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Heavy tool giving advantage to husband in jail (12) 8. Charge coppers in a state (7) 9. Order U-turn to do with upbringing (7) 11. Period of mishaps and unmanageable shock? (3,4,3) 12. Ring telecoms company about one passing comments? (4) 14. Large snake bites wounded stag that’s desperate (4-4) 16. Where to watch clip from ‘Medicine Man’ (6) 17. House with 500 bricks in it (3) 19. Introduce latest short picture (6) 21. Pancake flipped in stall — it rots (8) 24. Trounce right away (4) 25. Apiarists managed to hide drone’s top plant (10) 27. Reliable check (7) 28. A brief sound from duck keeps it turning in water (7) 29. Grumble about new performer? She gives generously (12)

Down

1. Southeast gives up and withdraws (7) 2. Endless mix-up in Spain, Asia and part of UK (4,6) 3. Doctor in Slough treated flood of miners in 1849 (4,4) 4. Airport building no good in sea mist in 2 perhaps (6) 5. Damage English dam (4) 6. Stable just doesn’t possess it (7) 7. Game pub offers to bring in novice storyteller (3,9) 10. Average tax changes around N. Carolina lead to profligacy (12) 13. Circulate police officer’s testimony (10) 15. Cover up pool (3) 18. Governing party maintain reforms without capital (8) 20. Wise guy tours America for salami perhaps (7) 22. Infant interrupts stories? That’s an understatement (7) 23. A thorny maths problem that takes your breath away? (6) 26. Joint’s been kept up to some extent (4)