CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Eastern potentate holding front of the fowling piece (7) 5 Frolicked about, full of savoury pickled buds? (7) 9 Make bit of lunch with mother’s stuffed delicacy (5) 10 Farm veal; cut it erratically (9) 11 Sign put a limit on Rhode Island maize (9) 12 Brownish body of water around head of provincial island (5) 13 Error in colour over strong cup of coffee (3,3) 15 River dividing U.S. composer’s farming area (8) 17 Imagines nutty pie crust (8) 19 With a mild imprecation, adjust underwear (6) 23 Brush off hedge plant (5) 24 Trim beans, cracking up clan member (9) 26 Healer mashed potatoes, hot (9)

27 Bread stuffing from halfway cooked bird? (5) 28 Ready to use last of pumpkin in Thanksgiving bird (7) 29 Loud noise interrupting spoken sort of number (7) DOWN

1 Fresh cider as cocktail (7)

2 At first, offer 41 pence for flower (5) 3 Importance of meat sauce covering the thing (7) 4 No cash converted for chips (6)

5 Carl, not I, ruined seasoning (8)

6 Joins together with dog carrying tunes (5,2) 7 Harvest fruit shows up again (9)

8 Bruce Willis movie

I’d heard all about (3,4) 14 Expert in furnishing is December speaker (9) 16 Get going about a yellow book on animals (8) 17 Hand around, like thus, in place (4,3) 18 Clear up New Brunswick section of a canal (7) 20 Poor Eve Ford is too full (7)

21 Often, drill includes twisting part (7) 22 Girth changed with doughnut, for sure (6) 25 Central American brought back

North American tuber (5)