DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Liszt, say, podgy rich kid playing live for king (5,7) 8 Substitute book (7) 9 Flower Auntie replaced behind front of patio (7) 11 Typical work by Poe in pants, blue (5,5) 12 Not quite 1000 in French factory (4) 14 A thousand put in dodgy offers for dubious profits (4-4) 16 Remove 4 from travelling fair that’s licentious (6) 17 Reduced food considerably (3) 19 Rope officer used crossing a narrow inlet (6) 21 I intercepted medals relating to suspicious activity (6-2) 24 Members of oligarchy bow (4) 25 Distribute roubles and lei out of hand (10) 27 European reason for crime arousing intense feelings (7) 28 Impromptu? To pianist it’s more than idyllic (7) 29 Fireworks disturb chronic types (12)
DOWN
1 Horseman swaps two letters for priest’s garment (7) 2 Crazy liar in trouble over allotment (10) 3 Colourful material in crude study about eastern females (8) 4 Engineers left article (6) 5 Go out with fruit (4) 6 Blue flower, when crushed, produces antigen (7) 7 How to get free document issued to media? (5,7) 10 It’s possibly sung with Al and Aled about turn of New Year (4,4,4) 13 Dish, college girl, excited Lionel (10) 15 Sink 11? (3) 18 Shrub ex-president got out of bed first (8) 20 Minister’s home, removing iron from dining room (7) 22 Southern Conservatives’ lies (7) 23 Frenchman goes over, say, to go back on (6) 26 Grain store Polish stripped and upended (4)