THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES

Across

9 Angry noise (5)

10 Make excessive gain (9) 11 Maybe (9)

12 Tree remnant (5)

13 Owing money (2,4) 14 Halogen element (8) 16 Bounded (7)

18 Fragrant smoke (7) 20 Packed into (8)

22 Hollow space (6) 25 Renovate (5)

26 Explosion result (5,4) 28 Retaliation (3-3-3) 29 Consumers (5)

Down

1 In the shortest possible time (abbr) (4) 2 Loathing (6)

3 Set of letters (8) 4 Backbone (5) 5 Cricket fielding position (5,4)

6 Afternoon nap (6) 7 Misapprehension (8) 8 Female oracle (10) 13 Unable to read (10) 15 Hardship (9)

17 Soak in a sauce (8) 19 Payment point (8) 21 English physicist (6)

23 Thrilled (6)

24 Game of chance (5) 27 Gaelic (4)