LATERAL THINKING: CRYPTIC

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

ACROSS

1. Wonderful helmet peaks for foremen! (11)

6. Even assume to take action in court (3)

8. Publicising top quality wedding band (6)

9. Apparently purse swayed convert (8)

11. When you do this to the mark, you’ll go too far (8)

12. Decentralise half of what’s fitting (6)

13. Fright disturbed races (5)

15. Gave up hope of diversifying dried peas (9)

17. Benjamin is terse, partly because of vicars and politicians (9)

19. Dreams of first prize in garden tools (5)

21. Crawls around looking for squiggle (6)

23. Drink consumed at end of fairway? (5,3)

26. Is Ray Lee’s speech addressed to Haifa natives? (8)

27. Recover balance using words (6)

28. Reel in headless fish (3)

29. Charm of glamour girl or witch (11)

DOWN

1. Flavours for different times of year (7)

2. Pause, Elaine, when discussing China (9)

3. Turns into weaklings (5)

4. Ready for business in Copenhagen (4)

5. Anglo-Saxon in Scotland exchanged Sean’s cash (9)

6. Climb to musical heights? (5)

7. Egghead Dexter foolishly exercised (7)

10. Exploit a legal document? (4)

14. Heels were damaged in some other place (9)

16. Respectable salesman you enter in list (9)

17. Miss, I’ll call for a weapon! (7)

18. Tsarinas dress in secret (4)

20. That’s yer lot! I hear you know your onion (7)

22. Right, you are Al from the country! (5)

24. Bail out rejected characters who lost colour (5)

25. What record is called in interior (4)