CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Play golf in time on northern course (5,6)
9 Best police in London decrease rapidly (7)
10 Cat and snake cross line in fair game (7)
11 Wife leaves to clean what’s in hearth (3)
12 Consumer ensured changes (3,4)
13 Involve English doctor with rare painting (7)
14 Spanish gentleman cheated mostly (3)
15 Graduates corner black creature with venom (5)
17 Famous frontiersman with no head for crime (5)
18 Fellow in squad’s not in good shape (5)
20 Nasty smell enveloping
unexceptional rubbish (5)
22 Fraudulently manipulate equipment (3)
24 Republicans welcome old PM briefly, a cousin of 15 (7)
25 Tavern’s sacked daily (7)
26 One who’s impertinent (and impudent) at the start (3)
27 Second warhead veers off? Yes (7)
28 Opening old cereal that’s out of condition (7)
29 Tact required for aviaries being reconstructed (6-5)
DOWN
1 Establishment people spotted in rallies around France (8,7)
2 Payment posh politician’s hidden in Glasgow chimney (4,3)
3 Two lots of old volunteers start to roast Asian tongue (5)
4 Unaware of where the first animals were, about 500 (2,3,4)
5 Bloke upset Ibiza, not unknown African state (7)
6 Right-winger once worked on nameless
25 I’ve supported (3-12)
7 Add a very soft object (6)
8 Volume of liquid energy wasted in old sailing ship (6)
16 One’s in ashram elaborately greeting spiritual leader (9)
18 Trouble king in swanky comfortable home (6)
19 Exam allowed over in ME city (3,4)
21 Rare metal found in most of main drink (7)
23 Collect articles Greek put outside (6)
25 Fools around, swapping pounds for pennies in trick (5)