Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1 Furious old Peruvian family?
(12)
8 Plant seeds around new home
one way or another (7)
9 Sing about one current wine
(7)
11 Role Pinter directed in ‘The
Uninvited Guest’? (10)
12 Video motor racing leaders in
Le Mans (4)
14 Sailors see round National Theatre, their minds elsewhere (8)
16 ‘Hospital holds record!’ as its
catchphrase? (6)
17 She joins society in the Bois
de Boulogne (3)
19 Slight margins ultimately
cover it (6)
21 Number 1 Across managed to
produce stupor (8)
24 Standard choice of letters (4)
25 Backing large number helps
milk producers (10)
27 Some salad and roast cutlet
eaten first (7)
28 Bar in centre reveals rust (7)
29 Top officer’s wasted off-site
cutting rubbish (5,2,5)
DOWN
1 Crudely, it means they’re
behind bars (7)
2 Clearly Cuba’s there only after
changing (10)
3 Neologism describes large
work by Dvorak (3,5)
4 Abstain from nearly all cheese
grated by women (6)
5 Trim round container (4)
6 Granny meets top man in
Chinese city (7)
7 Like buccaneer briefly on Scottish isle, lost but hopeful (12)
10 My tum seems in knots – this
should protect me (6,6)
13 Adult caught in a milk bar,
drunk, taken off in this? (5,5)
15 Money turns up under tree in
Alderney (3)
18 What heckler does in private
quarters? (8)
20 Extend period of imprisonment (7)
22 Fast bowler on? That brings
extra benefit (4-3)
23 Wild duck conserves kinetic
energy to cope (4,2)
26 Cross borne by brave lumberjack when climbing (4)