CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. This side, the female line with fads fit to be adapted (7)

5. Carlos somehow included Henry I as a person of learning (7)

9. Get rid of mate and lie in arranging it (9)

10. In ancient writing it shows one caught after race (5) 11. Consider deeply how tide turned in team dispersal (8) 12. The firm, in this place, must hang together (6)

14. One with the money will rate change as being more certain (9)

16. Classical order of architecture revealed in section I carved (5)

17. Fish got out of amber (5)

19. Trance-state in the East induced by fruit (9)

21. Short numbers are not straightforward, that’s why! (6)

22. Uneven, irritable? Use nails on yew first (8)

26. Heavy horse one hires tail-first (5)

27. Say it how it is ... the sentence? (9)

28. Shell term finishes off for Anderson? (7)

29. Puss, upset, will stop and debar one for a time (7)

DOWN

1. Vision of the East seen in a tipple (5)

2. A scam that will let one be victorious in broken sled (7) 3. An American private on the street one will take in to graze (5) 4. Saying such nice things, rating felt different (10)

5. A little merganser from the Middle East in the South-west (4) 6. lona needed march arrangement for mouth-organ (9) 7. There’s a light on the New Testament one might learn about (7)

8. Particularly choice, seeing her in a form of creche (9)

13. With early development, how might it occur with poise? (10)

14. Flowers, the sort bees do u-turn for (9)

15. Lemons not used if one’s so sleepy (9)

18. Closely study what gives the chop: it’s up to the pit (7)

20. It’s the material they burn that will anger one so (7)

23. Tiny particles are most awkward after a start (5)

24. The product to give way under pressure (5)

25. Practise boxing a non-metallic mineral (4)