CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Way to learn to dance in stages (4,2,4)

7 During fiasco, sheltered from blunt weapon (4)

9 Lady day before appeared (3)

10 Shift worker? (7,3)

11 Pauper kept part of extra benefit (4)

12 Failing while taking the plunge? (2,3,3,4)

15 Class included one mastermind (6)

17 Cultivator takes short time in producing exciting story (8)

18 Drag clear, pull it along bottom of water (5-3)

20 Not one amateur is fully developed (6)

21 Till sightseer struggles into vehicle (4,8)

24 Margin found in middle of accounts book (4)

26 New cost ie right more than once for desk (10)

27 Vehicle loan returned (3)

28 Toffee-nosed cobbler? (4)

29 Secret agent with mirrors and telescopes (10)

DOWN

2 Timber producer having many branches (4)

3 Snappy end to a close race? (5-6)

4 You had a way with cause of ferment (5)

5 The storm on stage (7)

6 German apt to become star (9)

7 This French penny mushroom (3)

8 Blonde fruit? (10)

13 Harmful to remove Rex with debts (11)

14 Where there’s an outside change of getting drunk? (4,6)

16 Daft not having all of five faculties (9)

19 Nervous idiot going over churchyard (7)

22 Test this balance (5)

23 Real troupe work out (4

25 Main departure (3)