SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

8 Face shows woman’s tally of years (6) 9 Warn the rat about getting directions (8) 10 Cleverly invent swindle involving rivet (8) 11 Set tea out in large family plot (6) 12 Informant, otherwise sane, goes to king (5) 13 Missile for a garden pest (4) 14 Victim to seek divine intervention, we hear (4) 16 Figure there’s time to put in a decree (7) 18 Opposed to making a profit on the way (7) 20 Mumble a potentially damaging remark (4) 21 English and French articles take temperature to be relative (4) 22 Place it inside for those who are not clerics (5) 25 Please take new form out (6) 27 Eventually come to buy some drinks (3,5) 28 Group gets woman a scarf (8) 29 Clean out with tip of the knife (6)

DOWN

1 Deny any connection with daughter getting in with pig (6) 2 Tense teacher produces an ace (4,6) 3 Yours truly sent aid in newspapers and the like (5) 4 Very expensive getting energy round large part of church (7) 5 Eco-friendly meter, say, for fruit (9) 6 Attentive to part that has changed (4) 7 Don’t relax as much, being unsettled (8) 14 Proper to take a woman to be an opera star (5,5) 15 Well-built tune contains very quiet note (9) 17 Dutch explorer has left one lucky charm (8) 19 As integral to triangle, for example (7) 23 Formal offer is sensitive to pain (6) 24 Let’s work with unknown manner of performance (5) 26 Fellow is in a whirl (4)