THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1020

An Ettinger coin purse and two Connell Guides will be given to the sender of the first correct solution to the crossword and the clue of the week opened on Monday 12 September. Send it to: The Week Crossword 1020, 2nd floor, 32 Queensway, London W2 3RX, or email the answers to crossword@theweek.co.uk. Set by Tim Moorey (www.timmoorey.info)

ACROSS

9 Suspect insured covers mother and nanny (9) 10 Bats bowl for kids (5) 11 Love helping with address (7) 12 Leading European attached to another European briefly? That’s appropriate (7) 13 Part of a crop regularly seen in Le Havre (3) 14 Devil, say about right in show (11) 17 Divine substance in a way, one’s heard (5) 18 Yours truly in Tunisia with former African president (3) 19 Boy with far to go? (5) 21 Having taken day off, boy strips washers (11) 23 Huge sum of money left on account? (3) 25 Quits and joins again (7) 27 Left one performing a part (7) 28 A boxing contest in the vicinity (5) 29 Having difficulty finding place for bird’s nest? (2,3,4)

DOWN

1 About to go behind possibly once again (6) 2 Experiment in court? (5,3) 3 Bum deal is out of date (10) 4 Rod’s new farm building (4) 5 They’d promote nice mobile in pithy words (2,8) 6 Supermarket box (4) 7 Taking exaggerated position on Washington restricts a North American city (6) 8 Combustible heap spotted up in the mountains (8) 15 Willy’s aware of latest trends in club group (10) 16 Lazy worker undergoing a prison sentence? (10) 17 Use roughly half of normal free entertainment (8) 20 Sweet tablet wrapped up in oval-shaped coil (8) 22 Improperly push to a conclusion (6) 24 What introduces cocktails and nibbles at party event? (6) 26 Barbarian understood to be associated with heroin (4) 27 Former Prime Minister’s in a hole, according to reports (4)