Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1 Purposeful, like confirmed bachelors? (6-6) 8 Morgan Freeman’s first complex submarine role? (7) 9 Sports arena – it’s a mostly muddy ground (7) 11 Pattern of speech in closed country (10) 12 Start to hear bird or dog sound (4) 14 Rose clambers over this, displaying pearlies (8) 16 Go back and plant seeds again, say (6) 17 Immediately begin to grow at last (3) 19 Commit crime on holiday on purpose (6) 21 Sightseers sit out everywhere, taking in river and sea (8) 24 Legislative assembly’s regular intake (4) 25 Do women give people blankets and used clothing? (4-2-4) 27 Rave about a politician out of control (7) 28 Old cross I had is beginning to exhibit rust (7) 29 Preoccupied person has this passion for single number? (3-5,4)
DOWN
1 Filming finished? Jump quickly (5,2) 2 Disputed ground in invader’s country king abandoned (2-4-4) 3 Extend good article in the French news (8) 4 It’s meant to bring luck and money at race course (6) 5 Close national organ (4) 6 Record poem about island event (7) 7 Chief floored corrupt person in authority (6-6) 10 Wrongful acts by a faceless man in disguise (12) 13 After last month Irene is prepared for divorce (6,4) 15 Go off schedule briefly (3) 18 Hobby would, when broadcast, succeed (8) 20 He enjoyed liberty as member of secret society? Not so (7) 22 One kept parcels recorded in books (7) 23 Brahman travels, carrying sacred text (6) 26 Powerful man in Washington Times (4)