CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Angry diminutive person defends special needlework (5-6) 9 With the appearance of spring, he and I call after surgery (7) 10 Paint girl in Wonderland not quite suppressing yelp (7) 11 Join daughter
in commercial (3) 12 Identify revolting fungi
provided by Yankee (7) 13 Range of listener at
shore varied (7) 14 Flowering over in
Truro in odd places (3) 15 South American initially hates one Japanese dish (5) 17 Startle group of motorists heading west in southeast (5) 18 Run male and
female quarters (5) 20 Copy poetic lines in
middle of ‘Hamlet’ (5) 22 Bath underground
railway unfinished (3) 24 What agitator does
disorients purists (5,2) 25 Time when almost nobody starts to do any yawning? (7) 26 Scraper scrubs front
of footwear (3) 27 Old ass knocked
over Herb (7) 28 We stick strange wooden items in Old Trafford ground (7) 29 Exploratory craft, small, formed from base copper (5,6)
DOWN
1 Pieces of special value, cellos merit cost to be repaired (10,5) 2 Soldiers and children
picked up plants (7) 3 Climbing mountains, army finally spread out (5) 4 Deal in diamonds, crossing west, exploiting this airstream? (5,4) 5 Rooster ruffled other fighters in ring (7) 6 She’s a left-hander, unsteady, showing apathy (4-11) 7 Trainer’s bubbly Evian, perhaps, by the sound of it (6) 8 Second article about case of crafty cutter (6) 16 English plan to block coastline signalling system (9) 18 Herbalist’s first posy’s spoiled minty plant (6) 19 Cosmetic mother used to cover a blemish (7) 21 It’s an issue of pride working in club with Oscar (4,3) 23 Youthful hobby is derailed after book’s stolen (6) 25 Name on jug is
not as old (5)