CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dawn’s hooter brassy in the wind (6,4) 6 Methods to start off poetry (4) 10 Performance of scuba trick cut short in region below 21 (9)

11 Shore up gym equipment (5)

12 Saints surround little dears (6) 13 Sodium’s rank – not so nice (7) 15 Penalty to pay, perhaps, for getting excited on soft food (4,5)

18 Am turning on canine with conviction (5) 19 I am replaced in German realm by a grasp (5) 21 Arrange help – or not – at the top of the world (5,4)

23 It’s a piece of cake to get these points for being good (7)

24 Have arrived in olden times in order to evolve (6)

27 Resin that’s rotten after using last of glue (5) 28 Support courtyards for your country (3,6) 29 Department of Social Security leads the way to cheap lodgings (4)

DOWN

1 One may easily lose one’s temper with a short one and strong habit (4) 2 Wobble back half-heartedly with joint (5) 3 Section to cause serious injury in assault (5,2)

4 Has note included that has aversion to (5) 5 Storyteller has novel race to run (9) 7 The German drummer took degree with adventurous courage (7-2) 8 Seabird very different from wheatears? That’s about right (10)

9 Pursued in African country around the south-east (6)

14 Novella, perhaps, containing black confection (10)

16 Alluring girl has no stomach for being romantic (9)

17 Proverbial finder’s not fallen out, we hear,