SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Lack of restaurant accommodation for distinguished people? ( 8)

5 Flying, is it part of the service? ( 6) 9 Arguing with someone about the taste the fish has? ( 8)

10 Keeps or puts back outside ( 6)

12 Washes the tins I’m to leave the lime in

( 6)

13 Catching one with a punch that’s really lovely? ( 8)

15 Don’t fall back, so far, in the struggle to be modern ( 4,2,2,4)

18 Being head and shoulders above the other ‘ 1 Across’? ( 6,2,4)

23 When the girl is in some mess, is very sweet, indeed ( 8)

24 Trip over, you do ( 6)

26 Turn on the TV and see the wild lion’s captured, all right ... ( 4,2)

27 ... the animal having swallowed the bait poured out: a drink ( 8)

28 When the female’s brought round the frames ( 6)

29 Feeling that adding ten to ten is wrong ( 8)

DOWN

1 That’s the writing on the wall, you observe ( 6)

2 Coin a word for someone taking the sun ( 6)

3 The rest can be made into a bundle ( 7) 4 Ages developing the negatives ( 4)

6 He has a notion to change his name ( 7) 7 The man is shielding Ivan, who got drunk in the revelry ( 8)

8 Unresisting, gave one’s name again ( 8) 11 To remain on holiday, break your journey ( 4,3)

14 Did he describe himself as a “21”, or clan of the moth? ( 7)

16 She is a lamb, going in to tidy up the mess! ( 8)

17 Figures the grinder is on the inside ( 8) 19 It’s back in the pit, growling ( 7)

20 Holding the darn wild cat up and it’s biting ( 7)

21 Guess it’s 504 plus three- quarters of nine ( 6)

22 To a squirrel, is one of them very like another? ( 6)

25 Lifted it by myself on that occasion ( 4)