CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Correct two members of staff and principal aide (5-4,3) 8 Strike writer’s ID, say? On the contrary (7) 9 Meal in Grand Hotel initially in terrible heat (4,3) 11 Wreck two carriers (6,4) 12 Hot fish that immediately follows sole (4) 14 Thirty-two pieces sister oddly kept in trunk (5,3) 16 Repeated phrase about Post Office fraud (3-3) 17 Scrap paper (3) 19 Yankee names confused flunkey (3-3) 21 Drinks game (8) 24 Change heading for riding gear (4) 25 Alerted on behalf of English minor touring Tyneside (10) 27 I study mother’s clothing for young ladies (7) 28 One big book put on disc as perfect example (7) 29 Union lent money, unwisely accepting MP’s economy measure (12)

DOWN

1 Current job stops engineers making counter (7) 2 Good trained singer has a kip and something to munch (6,4) 3 Wooden plate and treen spread around church by rector (8) 4 Ace has appeared in fast car in shock (6) 5 Regularly doing small excavations (4) 6 Harry traced over style popular in 1920s (3,4) 7 Mystics dance under branch engaging key part of brain (6,6) 10 Dad wrestles with sullen oaf without warning (3,2,1,6) 13 Symbolic fruit with remedial effect beginning to go off (10) 15 A little member of Dail Eireann hosts American (3) 18 Leaves maybe more ignorant by end of July (8) 20 Special unnamed ointment that helps babies feed (7) 22 Suspend attempt to enter disreputable haunt (4,3) 23 Piece of tissue left is not lifted (6) 26 Run into upturned bucket (4)