CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 One favouring
a lot of gas? (12)
8 Unappreciative type reacting badly after leaving clubs (7)
9 Current bachelor in sum in fancy passengercarrying vehicle (7)
11 Exuberant British Tories possibly followed by ordinary American (10)
12 Trouble facing first person,
one taking fares? (4)
14 Argument about thing at work at the present time (5,3)
16 Old party concealing
struggle in Spanish city (6) 17 Sailor has objective
50 per cent reduced (3)
19 Scribbled notes about
posh railway station (6)
21 Last month cooked tripe
in poor condition? (8)
24 Some choose a channel
per person? (4)
25 Dull common hero
requiring makeover (10) 27 Nurse admitting trouble in the last stage? (4,3)
28 Damage entrance to
drive in Kent town (7)
29 Fashionable French tea getting tip to the highest degree (2,3,7)
DOWN
1 Sign of poverty in existence around capitals of Gabon and Ghana (7)
2 Attuning to environment in film based on a book, say (10)
3 Busy sort beginning to consume first of this salad item (8)
4 Odd drink taken up
in hullabaloo (6)
5 Component in superior
nets in French river (4)
6 Tense old boy not walking
properly being at fault (2,5) 7 I’d set numbers poorly for
paying out from a fund? (12) 10 Those flip sadly over enclosure showing mistake in writing? (4,2,3,3) 13 Levy too much about
accusation in law? (10)
15 Roll of paper shown in
Western commercial (3)
18 Make a promise again about small group lacking support (8)
20 Scout in ground showing
process in a vacuum? (7) 22 Inclined to accept fine area
of a secular nature (7)
23 Robin, maybe, starts to import exotic sort of sweatshirt (6)
26 Writer linked to
quiet network (4)
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