CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Is not up to the bean, anyhow (7)

5. Giving of parts as practised by angler (7)

9. May be in love with me around end of June (9)

10. Cotton yarn one might sell (5)

11. Following a motif that mice can supply (8)

12. The way one talks of stress (6) 14. Flower awarded to the best dairyman? (9)

16. There’s sulphur on the rim of this plant (5)

17. Reasoning how one could make clog dance (5)

19. Dislikes savers might have of keeping one on (9)

21. Sharp set-to that lets us get sorted out (6)

22. Has about a hundred centres, like the waxing moon (8)

26. Swore it could not be as good (5) 27. To get through tape, enter it like this (9)

28. A performance by one in cartel of a sort (7) 29. It never stops the French one sends out like this (7)

Down 1.

Turning the table, sound sheepish (5)

2. The closest one gets to being dearest too? (7)

3. Smell that arises from Birmingham or Aston (5)

4. Marcher bit it perhaps for living in another’s shell (6-4)

5. It’s not plain language the doctor uses up (4)

6. Lung disease is doubly social without a sort-out (9)

7. At home, dates can be arranged as an alternative (7)

8. Magnitude of the ranges set out (9) 13. It has the look of one’s being there in person (10)

14. It might well be rot coming from the campanile (4-5)

15. Very fine cell, next after Pentonville’s last (9)

18. Wind — an endless trick of the stomach (7) 20. Carmen, say, and half the team work in the theatre (7) 23. When the tide’s turned it is positioned building-wise (5) 24. A terse arrangement of limes, say (5)

25. Stone from which one can drink nothing up (4)