CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
WIN £500
ACROSS
1 Cause trouble, as waves in a storm might do? (4,3,4)
9 Rex gets to develop gradually in turn (7)
10 Ruse by Leon not working to produce small flow of liquid (7)
11 Some break even for footballer Nathan (3)
12 Henry has fury essentially by ride arranged and done in a rush? (7)
13 Go in for fancy material on top of home, say (7)
14 Judge overlooking male Scottish runner (3)
15 Amass for hearing in African country (5)
17 Invigorating air in ordinary district (5)
18 Beam has to be shifted by feet (5)
20 Indoor game grabbing others in part (5)
22 Large number in place for Americans to park (3)
24 First person noticed, we hear, ugly landmark, possibly (7)
25 A number for taking youngsters out? (7)
26 Former French coin is bonus at intervals (3)
27 Italian composer has a line inspired by two women (7)
28 Caustic page associated with a French chap (7)
29 Dirty closet upset film director (6,5)
DOWN
1 Succeed after setback in corporate manoeuvre? (7,8)
2 Designation for vocation (7)
3 Moulded part of a tyre rated badly (5)
4 Consider and go into article probing mined material (9)
5 Corin is swimming in middle of pool and river in South America (7)
6 Assume irate Violet misread hard negotiator’s stance (4,2,2,5,2)
7 A rare church outwardly expanded in a domed shape? (6)
8 Modest writer gets to
consent largely (6)
16 Same deli renovated around back of drab Cumbrian town (9)
18 Something, perhaps, for wiping container for a record (6)
19 First of troublemakers went round and acted provocatively? (7)
21 Soldiers on piece of ground by old U.S. city (7)
23 Tiny boot regularly seen on a Japanese car (6)
25 Complaint raised by American after end of spell (5)
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