CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1.

Sort of lathe can hold taps being turned (7)

5. On the bench his is to take part in service (7)

9. Get through to Peter a net that was put out (9)

10. Reason a rating holds the Asdic in America (5)

11. Kitchen measure used at stirring times (8)

12. Might flap, if making a rice dish (6)

14. The likely range of capabilities one has (9)

16. How one could live comfortably on a penny in the old days (5)

17. Mark this couple as a nom-deplume (5)

19. It takes a bony-plated creature to roll a maid around (9)

21. Polar feature returned in the space circus (6)

22. Sent from the country harbour, indeed (8)

26. Will not start to mix it at the fireplace (5)

27. Session could have held the

Spanish without a sound (9)

28. With which one doesn’t have to listen to pug, real as it may be (7) 29. Tells on couch and rye (7)

Down

1. It’s the head who might act up (5) 2. Hanging ornament the writer Dante wasn’t finished with (7)

3. To add it is to put it over (3,2)

4. Plain one, at variance with this ice cream (10)

5. Cry a little quietly… (4)

6. … and, having cried, ends somehow in being cut away (9)

7. How can he be Ann? Only if the plant is poisonous (7)

8. Selection of shares may be representative of an artist’s work (9) 13. Sing about the furniture stored away in one’s sleep (10)

14. The end of one’s old man is killing (9)

15. Pain loner might suffer that is without equal (9)

18. He will requite Virginia, green though he may be (7)

20. Settler given the wrong post (7) 23. A rope that’s thrown to Carmen, say (5)

24. Takes one’s medicine in prescribed amounts (5) 25. Is comfortable with the firearms being given up (4)