LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION, No 1096:

ACROSS: 1 Ice-skate 5 Quebec 9 Turnpike 10 Nursed 12 Mullet 13 Tripedal 15 St Petersburg 19 Unquenchable 22 Dwindled 24 Cornea 26 Carper 27 Trifling 28 Solely 29 Play down

DOWN: 1 In time 2 Eerily 3 Kipper tie 4 Take 6 Usurp 7 Bass drum 8 Codology 11 Arsenal 14 Perched 16 Salmon fly 17 Sun-decks 18 Squirrel 20 Indigo 21 Ray-gun 23 Dwell 25 Oral