LATERAL THINKING: CRYPTIC

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

ACROSS

1. Dining linen somehow calls to Beth (11)

6. Drain vital fluid (3)

8. Turn maths symbol into vegetable (6)

9. Cut made lass orate loudly (8)

11. Expert on surgery or switchboard? (8)

12. Guides bullocks (6)

13. Initially silently tolerant of inner crises (5)

15. Hung over and banned from work (9)

17. Harvest fruit shows up again (9)

19. Something heard to be said of sleep or advice (5)

21. Movement led to some satisfaction (6)

23. Martha sets off on long race (8)

26. Inside is young Doctor Al (8)

27. In the past, the French were most anaemic-looking (6)

28. Bask in sun in Brittany (3) 29. Celebrity passed over and dogged by misfortune (4-7)

DOWN

1. Indelible images of military pageants (7)

2. Speaker heard in bars. Sell owner in Spain (9)

3. Heather shows anger on return to California (5)

4. What about the star of Inspector Morse, John? (4)

5. Candy, legumes or flowers? (5,4)

6. Divvy up part of company stock (5)

7. Happy to have parking contract before first of December (7)

10. Ship’s books made from fallen timber? (4)

14. Trophy panel’s closets (9)

16. Changing of the guards for the girls (9)

17. Practical person is alert, organised (7)

18. Such airs, oddly enough, disfigure (4)

20. Indicated? Indeed not! (7)

22. Tighten speech of legendary Greek giant (5)

24. Fort that must be remembered apparently (5)

25. Galahad had left fete (4)