CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Works supervisor was a boxing champ, once (7)

5 Composer’s unusual drive (5)

9 Continue causing fuss (5, 2)

10 Salvage bike introduced by engineers (7) 11 Might a séance become so animated? (8) 12 Resist upsetting nurse (6)

15 Massive electoral victory making the country deteriorate? (9)

16 Cooked steak and fish (5)

17 Banned sailor coming in as well (5)

19 Hopeful, awaiting delivery of small bundle (9)

21 One who idolises a woman, we’re told (6) 22 Shop selling food and drink one enters showing wild excitement (8)

25 Retrieve a Beatles record (3, 4)

27 Look back after journey to one Mediterranean port (7)

28 Partisan said to have a drink (5)

29 Stranger entering outskirts of Derby is old and trembling (7) DOWN

1 Unfamiliar rule introduced by field officer (7)

2 British actor wasted years in town (3, 8) 3 War hero, say, gets to film S American capital (10)

4 Emperor, unruly one capturing Roman leader (4)

5 Man from old London theatre (3) 6 Cheese put into apricot tarts (7)

7 I approach bird’s home very seriously (2, 7) 8 Expert pilots given their cards? (4) 13 Creator of no-fly zone? (11) 14 Firmly-established, like Neptune on his throne? (4-6)

15 Teach girl to reform, being sluggish (9)

18 Full after eating, a lot staggered into bed (7)

20 Luxury car in a US city needing maintenance (7)

23 Letters one of the Gallaghers brought up (4)

24 Small child out of control in this? (4)

26 Hear a simple tune in this Scottish town (3)