CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Isambard Brunel’s realm (7)

5. A box of sporting engagements? (7)

9. Changed the properties of a turn of a sort, indeed (9)

10. Right boot put out for one who acts mechanically (5)

11. Len with 26 got confused on the outside (8)

12. Man let out when crazy (6)

14. What’s brought into the country, an insect that matters (9)

16. When all play it back, first sound one’s disapproval (5)

17. Use a brush for a pump-handle (5)

19. Meddle with nitre, free as can be (9)

21. Corn I’d got from Sweden or Finland (6)

22. Unable to settle the others being fewer (8)

26. What’s more, it could be wide (5)

27. It queries how necessary it may be (9)

28. Confiscate the case somehow (7)

29. Took on staff when due to marry (7)

DOWN

1. How to warp some marked gear (5)

2. Continuous PT and so on around the North (7)

3. First deciduous tree planted out to put one off (5)

4. Sort of marriage with Georgia, romantic as can be (10)

5. In me, do up the fashion (4)

6. One who distresses people between one hill and another (9)

7. Normal abode for titfer, getting around a bit (7)

8. The moon is late: let it be corrected (9)

13. Dignified and imposing sculpted figures half the queues are after (10)

14. It’s not meant to be nice: rinse it out (9)

15. Make a copy of tie parcel was made of (9)

18. Irregular way car tire is spelt (7)

20. Is smoothing out the time of day (7)

23. The object is to be skinny by 3rd August (5)

24. The rate for amphetamine (5)

25. Vex oneself as to the ridge on the fingerboard (4)