CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Raised support, quietly elated

about recruiting son (8)

5 Black, and almost identical stuff

that's thrown out (6)

9 Regular church people first to

trace old paper (9)

11 Drive and energy – oddly very

low in reverse (5)

12 Long for free rides

across Spain (6)

13 Fuss created by welcoming everybody who should be heard (8)

15 Person looking for opportunities with skipper? (6-7)

18 Is he bred for transport by more

remote group at sea? (5,8) 22 Wave from student about teatime approximately? Quite the reverse (8)

23 Book bingo getting drunk (6) 26 European low-fat cream (5) 27 Offensive old boy confronting Number Ten with evidence of debts (9)

28 Daughter needs a face-covering

material (6) 29 Detective seen in erotic

number (8)

DOWN

1 Keep quiet, depressed after

tweet (4,4)

2 Skill required in case of

demands for game in pub (5) 3 Score badly covering hard and

unknown piece of music (7) 4 Liverpool music venue lacking

boundaries, say (4)

6 Even off, cut and wrap (7) 7 False modesty mainly protects

her, being stifled (9)

8 Wealth of men heartlessly

collecting shells (6) 10 Duck across wet ground keeping

nothing for drier (3,5)

14 English journalists going

in like this coffee (8)

16 Some long, for a change, to adopt international coinage (9)

17 Suspect Poles will accept

America getting support (8) 19 Sailor fetches butts? (7)

20 Gave an account of losing time

for kiss, being laid-back (7) 21 High purpose hurt feelings (6) 24 Source of tinny hooter that's a

cause of irritation (5)

25 People who lived

in sin casually (4)