LATERAL THINKING: CRYPTIC

Use the cryptic clues to solve this crossword with a twist.

1 ACROSS

Comedian gets his gear off in cartoons (5,6)

6 Make pouch from various accessories (3) 8 Improvises but is bald, strangely enough (2-4)

9 Ted returned, carrying relic for vagrant (8)

11 Demon fighter requests eggs or cyst (8)

12 Mix Chinese dynasty with the French (6)

13 Shared without a tear (5) 15 Heard Sly drool over mathematical calculating device (5,4)

17 Committee member who looks after Kitty (9)

19 Edge left inside (5) 21 Chicken so tough to cook you need a steam generator (6) 23 Renovated store in the red (8) 26 Sent forth and used by horseman at Edinburgh (8)

27 Senior mistakes are more curious (6) 28 Alien craft spotted in Beaufort (1,1,1) 29 Important cricketers who are not central to the game (11) DOWN

1 Chats about the Spanish returning to ski lodges (7) 2 One rumble shook up an Australian city (9)

3 Young wolf, I see, has three dimensions (5)

4 Chilled in nice decanter (4) 5 Shabbiness – inherent quality of fruit pips? (9)

6 Vacillate about playground equipment (5)

7 Reflector made cat sigh aloud (7) 10 Serpents pass out (4) 14 Adjusted road speed for dangerous criminal (9) 16 Stress beneath cable (9) 17 Gold placed behind table in striking scene (7)

18 Admire effort to expose shipping hazard (4) 20 Otherwise sure after last part survives (7)

22 Rocky Mountain state sees every other wild fashion (5) 24 He leaves the roll for Nordic goblin (5)

25 Sensed it was material used in Eiffel Tower (4)