LATERAL THINKING: CRYPTIC

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

ACROSS

1. Are they the very best at their jobs or do they just get others to work harder? (11)

6. Pompous fool takes bets from bassets (3)

8. Anticipates a weight’s call (6)

9. Keep apart and isolated (8)

11. Wyatt carries mufflers (8)

12. Abandon the wilderness (6)

13. Murdered? Los Angeles is embroiled in sin (5)

15. Heard to suffer. Kate will make you choke (9)

17. Driving force of lance tip (9)

19. Woods often seen on fairway (5)

21. Contained within title document? Really! (6)

23. Asked rat if I’d been sanctioned (8)

26. Ready like a scout should be (8)

27. Royal Academy climber found in gully (6)

28. Rise and shine first before Dashen off for Ethiopia’s highest peak (3)

29. Exhume headless pest with indifference (11)

DOWN

1. See star rewrite difficult questions (7)

2. Cats arise out of floor connector (9)

3. Inn in Palermo, television is included (5)

4. Used for fencing in tepees (4)

5. Patsy paces around big kid (9)

6. To grow less flab, half dined (5)

7. Office staff? (7)

10. Ova nits and caviar (4)

14. Nanny is theatre worker and hotel cleaner (9)

16. Turn as English as ceiling distortion (9)

17. Captain gets southern fish (7)

18. Fade out the hearing-impaired (4)

20. Most embarrassed in sheltered destination (7)

22. Remains of doctor, for example, head of surgery (5)

24. Angry pirate missed opening of play (5)

25. Lee’s cooking morays (4)