CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Leading margin in golf, guy’s cool, stealing a march (3-9) 8 Barge is less heavy (7) 9 Reform Club keeping one working? It’s an issue of pride (4,3) 11 Almost the same as old reserves breaking in brown horse (10) 12 Start travelling back without daughter, using this? (4) 14 Redundant member’s item on barbecue? (8) 16 Consort’s warning about British (6) 17 A bit of recognisable tooth (3) 19 Personal protection’s right during affair (6) 21 Crab I ate could be the source of tummy problem (8) 24 It reverberates from the chorister ... (4) 25 ... possibly sullenest young beginner without proper notes? (10) 27 Pilot went too, in a pair of shades (3-4) 28 Like gemstone from old friend in Spain (7) 29 Nasty French noble, top man, catches large swan actually (4,8)

DOWN

1 Yellow Middle Eastern strip includes new fabric (7) 2 More intelligence about Europe is irrelevant (10) 3 Like chemist’s table now and then? (8) 4 Lewis’s lion finally leant at an angle (6) 5 Studious type pulls back (4) 6 Embrace popular part of crossword duke brought in (7) 7 Book collection veteran attached to will (3,9) 10 A beer rashly drunk around end of night? Avoid this! (12) 13 Set up one label, recruiting young glamorous stars (10) 15 Bishops gathered round coin once (3) 18 Willing to prepare to shoot fighting bird (8) 20 Game John played

in journal (3,4) 22 What wasp may do repeatedly when asleep? (7) 23 Agency desk (6) 26 Smell extremely dirty trunk (4)