LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION, No 1294:

ACROSS: 1 Comatose 5 Bow-wow 10 Utterance 11 Pilot 12 Thyme 13 Whitewash 14 Half-twelve 17 Void 19 Mute 20 Wrist watch 22 No smoking 24 Topic 26 Thief 27 Subject to 28 Settee 29 Newshawk DOWN: 1 Count the minutes 2 Matey 3 Torrents 4 Sinew 6 Osprey 7 Walkabout 8 Watched the clock 9 Relieves 15 Late shift 16 Earliest 18 Swatters 21 Coffee 23 Gable 25 Pitta