CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Vertebrae keeping you

reportedly horizontal (6) 4 Cheers holding in extravagant

rolling rear (8)

9 Deny detective’s private (6) 10 Clash pressing sweetheart

about sink (8)

11 Twisting a lever to lift (8) 13 Psalm spoken by Church (6) 15 Special tonic pacifies

condition (13)

18 View daring nudes, not dancing,

removing nothing! (13)

22 Hard part’s admitting addict’s

head for addictions (6) 24 Labour’s opening with brilliant

tax cut (8)

26 Lesson of love in practice

following you French (8)

27 Case ignores hip position (6) 28 Really sharpens ends of tool

facing yard (8)

29 Pressure put on to

get stuffed! (6)

DOWN

1 Wet turf covers hole (6) 2 Group’s on speed, occasionally

crazy (9)

3 Deny going round women’s

prison (7)

5 One is out of shape lacking

force (4)

6 Pain in mouth cut windpipe (7) 7 One European sacked from job

as health worker (5)

8 Pure polyester lingerie

clothes (8)

12 Old private detective consumed

narcotic (6) 14 Colour of Queen one’s turned

over (6)

16 Stuck at home

reading novel (9)

17 Teachers incubate bird (8) 19 Counters and equipment found

in laboratory (7)

20 Top ten single Queen’s penned

promoted stillness (7)

21 Stage conclusion

for story (6)

23 Club giving order for man facing

bowler? (5)

25 Criminal upset getting old

inside prison (4)