CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Rent smocks for disruptive working hours (5,6) 7 Pull to wrong side (3) 9 Valiant shot at missing part of the ear (5) 10 Start to smile, chuckling over carnage (9) 11 Loosen clasp with ends of elliptical blade (7) 12 At intervals, urged to negotiate and give ground (7) 13 First of ancient thick layers of the city (6) 15 Fiance needn't worry about being included in passport, say (8) 18 Morning after midnight in German city (8) 19 Unwashed food at hand (6) 22 Drug company with a nice solution (7) 24 Tail not wagging completely (2,5) 26 Carer hugs invalid for extra payment (9) 27 Fresh blooding to remove old characters, in a numbers game (5) 28 Both of us accept love and sorrow (3) 29 Corner back in view of subdivision (11) DOWN 1 Made news as a Welsh centre (7) 2 Have Latin translated to Biblical giant (9) 3 Half turn on fringe of flower (5) 4 Activity may settle every so often in the shade (6) 5 Tire with a lot of shouting and glaring (8) 6 Tourist had the sense to join Sibyl (9) 7 Songbird with the French name (5) 8 Got the better of twisted yarn (7) 14 Etch in oil production from an early stage (9) 16 Given piping up before wealthy young girl (9) 17 Streetcar ran around eastern stage by cable (8) 18 Copes with a wide-bladed cutter (7) 20 Cry loudly but tell you otherwise (4,3) 21 Films came in reels (6) 23 Bend with centre of gravity during rehabilitation (5) 25 Bet it played in the highlands (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: - 1 Sniper. 5 Cellar. 10 Under the counter. 11 Persuasion. 12 Tort. 14 Repast. 16 Venality. 18 Adoption. 19 Assent. 22 Cent. 23 Serpentine. 26 Pastoral letters. 27 Estate. 28 Odessa.

Down: - 2 Nadir. 3 Perquisite. 4 Rehash. 5 Cyclones. 6 Laud. 7 Authorise. 8 Bumper. 9 Pretty. 13 Maisonette. 15 Prognosis. 17 Moderate. 18 Accept. 20 Theism. 21 Apollo. 24 Ideas. 25 Soya.