LATERAL THINKING: CRYPTIC

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

ACROSS

1. Anne, sir, called out the solution (6)

5. Chaps get limb tangled up in clothing items (8)

8. They’re wished for at night but are they made of this? (5,6)

10. Are leading letters everything? (3)

12. Engage services of Twain to hold reader’s spot (8)

14. Half of preschool could be more generous (6)

15. Secret kept in closet, with master key, make no bones about it! (8)

17. Use oar to create wake (6)

18. Nut found in Romania, certainly (6)

20. Janus’ quality a couple confronted (3-5)

22. Codex utilised, going back inside for dinner jacket (6)

23. New BBC roles for bootmakers (8)

25. A party is a fuss! (3)

26. College date loosened low-cut neckline (11)

28. Street demos in favour of school exams (8)

29. Stop inside Zanzibar restaurant (6)

DOWN

2. Key worn out in Big Apple (3,4)

3. Ruin crew before end of week (5)

4. Rocker Stewart’s fishing gear? (3)

5. Some rougher kind of cucumber (7)

6. Says she misses her married title (3)

7. Narrators for banks? (7)

9. Film a turkey but still bring in the dough (4,1,4)

11. Mohair on show in Pyongyang or Abu Dhabi? (6)

13. Cooks take choir a vegetable (9)

16. Hang around while exploiter loses a third (6)

19. A solar source the German took

apart (7)

20. Terribly snooty around first-class magnates (7)

21. Angers Queen Agnes by mistake (7)

24. Alter these characters afterwards (5)

26. In Scotland, do you briefly change colour? (3)

27. Pasture in mid-Orleans (3)