CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Clean stick securing small picnic item (6,5) 9 Quoin dislodged in walls of jail, revealing plant (7) 10 Sort of animal, reptilian originally, consisting of plates (7) 11 Essential material contained in ‘Mein Kampf’ (3) 12 Anglicans still tormented one who bows (7) 13 Top officer spoils Prince Harry (7) 14 The main prison once in London after 13 (3) 15 Detective’s puzzle (5) 17 Pan and what may be in it (5) 18 Accountant controls credit and capital in Africa (5) 20 What bread-winner brings home that goes with it! (5) 22 Tremor in cheek primarily? (3) 24 It used to be blown, except after dismissal (7) 25 Glaswegian’s first 15 on which to make scones (7) 26 Lyrical poem ‘On leaving the cinema’ (3) 27 Superb conductor of energy in a storm that’s out of control (7) 28 Couples dancing very near (5,2) 29 Aristocrat’s wife scuppers his romances (11)

DOWN

1 I can live with caramel, stirred in dessert (7,3,5) 2 Palace employee wasting time becomes tour guide (7) 3 Somewhere to rest in Paris in the dark (5) 4 Sort of musk oil in fine clubs and traditional bars (4,5) 5 Damp in odd places clogging drier’s fan (7) 6 He occupies new address in Kent, showing warmth (4-11) 7 What pilot in trouble does, caught among European planes (6) 8 Ornamental band made of rare metal (6) 16 Yobbo that vandalised an early chopper (4,5) 18 Take on problem in rough sea (6) 19 Arab tribe relocated settler? (7) 21 Nasty old male breaks racket (7) 23 Sinister aristocrat gets promoted in city without it (6) 25 Reptile, say, turned up initially crawling on floor (5)