CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Down tree with horizontal

stroke (4)

3 British expert’s connecting

marks (6)

9 Give URL, shifting slash (7) 10 Hundredth tourist town in Quebec and Northwest Territories (3,4)

11 Signal to pause once

limos moved (9) 12 Something that separates medium in unconscious state (5)

13 Figure having less feeling (6) 15 Inquire about Hatcher’s

star sign (8)

17 Series of dots tumble

into view from the east (8) 19 French president’s

mark over a vowel (6) 23 Indication to insert piece of

evidence in vehicle (5) 24 Interfere after the first smooth connection? (9)

26 Claimed questionable

point (7)

27 Signs of stress in a Conservative before small change (7) 28 Scratches a line in first of six

hearts (6)

29 Also place our bunch (4)

DOWN

1 U.S. composer, surrounded by noise, starts eating (5,2) 2 Make tracks right in the middle of swindle (5)

3 French article following vegetable and insect (6) 4 Mountaineer is breaking a record in time (8)

5 Pain in rear: a checkpoint (7) 6 Most of the way through fast, the guy baked dish (6)

7 Turned mere lies more palatable (8) 8 A nail from a speaker fit (6) 14 Current distance for running holds sprinter Lewis back (8)

16 One who complains about alien shopkeeper (8)

17 Secure in a way, cede no ground (6)

18 Italian river, to pal, is Washington’s river (7)

20 One Friday around southern land mass (6)

21 Daughter is adopted by crazy colonists of a sort (7)

22 Pierces small fruits (6) 25 Cancel yearbook, missing article (5)