Cryptic crossword

DOWN:

1 Secede. 2 Parse. 3 Rags. 4 Admirer. 6 Ledge.

7 Saint Paul. 8 Detonate. 11 Swab. 14 Apse. 15 Singleton. 16 Air. 17 Norm. 18 Slippery. 20 Obey. 21 Postman. 22 Eggnog. 24 Terse. 26 Alibi. 27 Tsar.

ACROSS

1 Choir ceased broadcast in Canterbury, for instance (11)

9 Leader of rabble rousing speech ignored publication (7)

10 Halt breast enhancement

seconds in (3,4)

11 Either way, William’s somewhat indisposed (3)

12 Native polluted mouth of

Mekong here (7)

13 Blow up trendy apartment

close to lake (7)

14 Allow infringement in court

(3)

15 Fashionable clique that often

appears in magazine (5)

17 Thelma’s companion gets rid

of one parasite (5)

18 Bitter cold in desert (5)

20 Gather fuel left inside (5)

22 Deer seen in odd places in

Rhodes (3)

24 Performance in old hat likely

to touch people (7)

25 Try to obtain crude oil in

small city, not terminal (7)

26 Mike loves noise on farm (3)

27 Virginia has exhausted revolutionary ice cream (7)

28 Perhaps oyster before, you

might say, chopped veal? (7)

29 Trucker’s silly delivery error,

bypassing Spain twice (5,6)