SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Journalists round top of road go backwards, and go forwards (8)

5 Humiliated when getting

into a cot (6)

9 Choice of representatives that makes one cross (8)

10 Mysterious stuff starts to obsess city clerk until leaving town (6)

12 Saying American lawyer

is in time (5)

13 Understanding king

currently on shelf (9)

14 Exit scene dramatically

for a living (9)

15 Removes innards –

courage needed (4)

17 Be fruitful, but

encounter reversal (4) 19 Wrongly claim to be

internally reactive (9)

23 Brewed ales again provide relief from pain (9)

25 Ground corn that is cut

in half (5)

26 Girl’s sphere mostly of

aromatic plants (6)

27 Troublemaker got tiara

smashed (8)

28 Allow to return, gripping

fool’s fringe (6)

29 A vacant twit stopped

and paid attention (8)

DOWN

1 Match official in step with book’s introduction (7)

2 Factory employee may

be working (9)

3 Go back to entertain

again (7)

4 Restoring takings mocks robber’s cover (8,4)

6 Support diary of pile of

things to be done (7)

7 Waterway noise (5)

8 Spotted Dorothy before

Edward (6)

11 Pad directly to last

part (4,8)

16 Bore carried around

real problems (9)

18 Tycoon’s mother and

agent, possibly (7)

20 Bather swims round

point to take in air (7) 21 Stuck her in mixed

school (7)

22 Hidden store ending

just for prestige (6)

24 Cards include right

measurements (5)