CRYPTIC CROSSWORD no 1,252

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Across

1 One’s illuminating insult about holiday jaunt (5,5).

6 Such a long time concealing display of piety (4).

9 Literary origin of a posh old god’s up-to-the-minute (10).

10 Excess quantity left in abdomen (4).

12 Slowly draw one who’s learned on farming matters? (4).

13 Turn back to keep watch in unusually thin airflow (9).

15 Claim to be a model — about time, for one’s a fraud (8).

16 One in party gets very cold outside — such foolishness! (6). 18 Tintin’s alternative line-dance? (3-3).

20 For flavouring, old sailor eager to hold riotous festivity (8).

23 Bit by bit, confusion with corn surrounds church (9).

24 Manual worker, one very absent, is kind of blue (4).

26 In welding, take back part that’s not working (4).

27 Trainer this month runs to dodgy court (10).

28 Long to go topless, and get what’s deserved (4).

29 Being weak, disparage bread-making activity soundly (5-5).

Down

1 Heavily criticise big trick contract (4).

2 Desert and break up — there’s an unpleasant situation (3,4). 3 Agribusiness investments? They are for land turnover (12).

4 Animates fashionable monuments (8).

5 Top fashion Rio had affected (6).

7 Briskly, and with total self-confidence, get right in (7).

8 Halt during visit away — for too long, perhaps? (10).

11 Feathered friend of high-flier bureaucrat getting poorest rating (8,4). 14 Devotee goes outside home for instruction (10).

17 After formal dance, quote back in graceful steps (8).

19 One irritating sewer (7).

21 Yielded about over-the-top dance (7).

22 Write negatively in Paris, and flag (6).

25 Mournful music turns up, endlessly grating (4).

Solution to Sunday Independent Cryptic Crossword no 1,251 Across: 1 Oral exam; 5 Facile; 8 Tachometer; 9 Most; 10 Surgical spirit; 11 Readmit; 13 Hotspot; 15 Pensive; 18 Affront; 21 Polling station; 22 Tree; 23 Immemorial; 24 Ragtag; 25 Destined.

Down: 1 Obtuser; 2 Ascertain; 3 Egotism; 4 Abeyant; 5 Fireproof; 6 Cameras; 7 Lesotho; 12 Invoicing; 14 Provision; 16 Emporia; 17 Salient; 18 Austere; 19 Flat out; 20 Tangled.