CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Like advanced research by mail involving cook (12) 8. Her suit’s in bad shape and it’s covered in hair (7) 9. Secretary rings an expert that’ll fix everything (7) 11. Turn a little money in Morecambe? That’s selfish (10)

12. Women welcome a flutter (4)

14. Switch positions intermittently (2,3,3)

16. Familiar green area (6) 17. Dandy beginning to find work (3)

19. Present group dismissed (3,3)

21. Good 17 worked with this present outlet (4,4)

24. Visitor fails to hide receding hairstyle (4) 25. Engineer learnt to put in a rare electrical device (10) 27. Prefer to include large character (7)

28. It makes you cry, accepting gumshoe’s judgment (7)

29. Class deal poorly with so-called skin preservative (12)

Down

1. Role for each child first of all (7)

2. Super sets up object on river mostly (10)

3. Crude study about English females yields vivid material (8)

4. Game attractive girl keeps quiet (3,3)

5. Approval to suppress popular noise on farm (4) 6. Praise Mail for arranging to support a cricket club (7)

7. The fiasco involving 3 females annoyed officer (5,2,5)

10. A foreign wine, one in season, is breathtaking (3-9)

13. Linkman’s job: running busy unit in big town (10) 15. It makes it hard to see frost on ground at first (3) 18. Fruit, long cold one (4,4) 20. Rent-a-party flyer? (7) 22. Link for use in emergency in hotel complex (7)

23. Like bouquets for all trips (6)

26. Upset state of mind leading to downfall (4)