CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Order a hot dip with rice, producing perspiration (11) 9 Songbird does it, primarily robin and blackbird in part of UK (7) 10 Harry agreed around November to send bananas (7) 11 Some of the riskiest sort of jumps? (3) 12 Two men seize earl, a royal representative (7) 13 Alexander’s wife in a car travelling round Zambia (7) 14 Station with no water where everyone goes (3) 15 Equine sound from folk next door? Not half! (5) 17 Surrender profit (5) 18 Back US soldier in vehicle in Havana for instance (5) 20 Leaf’s fine, circular, with no centre (5) 22 Young copper on beat’s first (3) 24 Student quits Tuvalu prepared to tour a new Pacific nation (7) 25 Before long, diminutive lady loses heart (7) 26 The Spanish king’s browser? (3) 27 Roots in ground twisting (7) 28 Such characters are inclined to show stress (7) 29 Good fortune saves good busy garage — bags going on there (7,4)
DOWN
1 BBC boss, police officer and minister meet brass hat (8-7) 2 Section of wing stored in trailer once (7) 3 Cheeky girl, strangely shy when around American (5) 4 Receiver impounds chic straggly plant (9) 5 Husky that Roy trained (7) 6 Absurd eccentric kind of fraud (10,5) 7 Merry wives left to do a turn (6) 8 Announce artist secured housing (6) 16 Brussels upset All Blacks in ugly final, causing complaint (9) 18 Somewhere to hide Eliot’s cat, motherless (6) 19 Studying place in Berkshire (7) 21 Model moon in play (7) 23 Fresh-faced Yankee, one taken in by rubbish (6) 25 Before a quarter past five, 11 avoid work (5)
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