CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Hit Asian assets after revolution (11) 9. Construction kit can come disassembled (7) 10. Toxin developed from gentian (7) 11. Crude painting (3) 12. Sheep split defensive wall (7) 13. Extract from quite miserly catalogue (7) 14. Occasionally reveal catch (3) 15. Dustin Hoffman film mentioned people in Africa (5) 17. Yellowish mineral deposit chief brought in (5) 18. Woman turned over property perhaps (5) 20. Old magistrate always comes back full of energy (5) 22. Result of burning tree (3) 24. Henry abandoning Victor’s plant (7) 25. Republicans in power produce ‘An Ideal Husband’? (2,5) 26. Very tense rounds (3) 27. Fifty quit Tuvalu prepared to engage an island state (7) 28. Wise men over in Rio developed Japanese art (7) 29. Area pledges revised U.S. emblem (6,5)

Down

1. A college praises mum who’s introduced skills (15) 2. It’s used to preserve atlaes in poor condition (3,4) 3. Film new growth (5) 4. It is admitted by girl to give emphasis in text (9) 5. Colourful style transforming red coat (3,4) 6. Fancy using hall during contract as a means of communication! (7,8) 7. For example, soldiers put back surface (6) 8. Wing where woman hides former lover (6) 16. Scary spinner wastes natural talent, striking fast (9) 18. A duck circles around bay (6) 19. Fine song in which it’s hard to breathe (4,3) 21. Making a mistake carrying a personal adornment (7) 23. That pine needs trimming for top security (6) 25. Big deer behaves like a cow, especially at first (5)