CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across
1. Attempt briefly to finish my job designing new fashions (12)
8. Paper folding? Old Baltic city writer’s upset (7)
9. Absurd target set before a boating event (7)
11. White layer typically causing rig to wobble (5,5)
12. Ring around lines (4)
14. Doctor wears more painful old hat (8)
16. Woman’s opponent recalled dealing with this (6)
17. Displease leaderless Church of Scotland (3)
19. Generate energy in case (6)
21. Spooky mood and atmosphere in pub beginning to go? (8)
24. Cypriot always entertains Athenian character (4)
25. The fool had spoiled what athletes eat? (6,4)
27. Granny swathes injured knee in cotton (7)
28. Wordy first half of book’s boring poetry (7)
29. Member gathers 100 at union meeting by arrangement (12)
Down
1. Nuclear fuel? President mostly stores it on island (7)
2. Overvalue old gemstone good monarch imported (10)
3. Waste a quid on one Rhode Island cocktail (8) 4. Wear a new variable hearing aid (6)
5. One obtained revolutionary old garment (4)
6. Some say late shift pay is based on this salt (7)
7. Celts originally positioned iconic stone circle perhaps (5,7)
10. Immediately unsaddle foal that’s misbehaving (3,2,1,6)
13. Minor device connected to computer (10)
15. Extract of foreign mineral deposit (3)
18. Pull up old vegetable and very nearly collapse (4,4) 20. Inactive former Tory leader in court (7) 22. European reticent about record in environmental science (7)
23. Leguminous plant regularly remains in place (6) 26. First group of unemployed put up list of courses (4)