CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Jazz age is about the beginning of motion pictures (6)

4 Vehicle one step from a hard top (8)

10 Testifies about heap of old coins (9)

11 Science fiction about inverted fat man (5)

12 A sailor’s song sounds appropriate for people of the Gold Coast (7)

13 Confine retirement cuts to male relations (7)

14 Choose a long trip, forsaking a silver lining? (14) 18 Conquering lead extraction with inflated style (14) 22 Fundamentally a threat to order (2,5)

24 Claret spilt about one performance (7)

26 Gold- plated cast say goodbye to the French (5) 27 Pull out a knife and turn out heathens (9)

28 Follow initially gracefully performed reel with poor lines (8)

29 Stand for the tinned variety (6)

DOWN

1 Without question wearing a suit (2,6)

2 Go hungry without the head of some Christians (5)

3 Duke in gumboots after pruning (9)

5 Learns a trick at soccer club (7)

6 Fabulous author of upcoming marine work (5) 7 Sport master (or head at least) surrounded by unknown enemy of the Trojans (9)

8 Just like Santa’s little helpers to be ungenerous and unoriginal! (6)

9 Tip of the iceberg doing harm to the deep blue (6) 15 Human heartbreak over fish (9)

16 Techno party had limited season in police club (9) 17 Learned bore reported on wine (4-4)

19 Thrust one’s way into, lacking finish and with no refinement (7)

20 Giant female becoming gross without energy (6) 21 Difficult to accept alphabet ends in danger (6)

23 Morning service, please (5) 25 Tenth surrendered, undisciplined twentieth went away (5)