Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1 Improvises as daughter inside
bails out (2-4)
4 What’s needed to log in American before touring Vietnam? (8)
10 Pompous crowing involving
doctor in charge (9)
11 Player’s agent ignoring fine (5)
12 Type of furry creature – work
with very large number (7)
13 Annual publication bound by
local man, a craftsman (7)
14 Victor leaking wife’s secret (5)
15 Former sweetheart, model, dancing round apartment, briefly (3,5)
18 A theologian facing ruin, then Greek character backed supplement (8)
20 Husband sitting in pleasant
recess (5)
23 Western flea, unusually large
thing? (7)
25 Conspirator died close to huge
waterfall (7)
26 Band in bad taste originally,
upon reflection (5)
27 Simon, perhaps, having tot with
painter right away (9)
28 Ritz, say, providing more
comfortable time for male (8)
29 Member of the clergy in park
by hill (6)
DOWN
1 Delicious food in the morning? Bishop more cheerful, we hear (8)
2 Satirise a politician taken in by
simple-minded person (7)
3 Head removed from fish covered in cheese in restaurant (9)
5 Radical comes to fancy party
member (6,8)
6 Newly-created earl, leader of
men in field (5)
7 Word of opposite meaning –
not many for changing (7)
8 What could be nicer? Hotel
upgrade (6)
9 Small cap designed to meet the needs of duke crossing battle site (8,6)
16 Comes down on head
creating scene (9)
17 Rat in waste, rolling about (8)
19 Fall away, so give up (4,3)
21 Talk about run out round island in ceremonial carriage (7)
22 Second look at cloth sample
(6)
24 Schoolchild’s young dog left
lying under one (5)