SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The answer is don’t stay away (4-4)

5 Showing shrewdness, the fellows get on to a copper (6)

9 Make it clear the fight was outside the arena (5,3)

10 Where the doctor’s milk came from, in Russia (6)

12 A little upset and put about by the lost ground (6)

13 Was a collector, one understood (8) 15 Keeping to the law (5,7)

18 Snapped ‘Au fait?’ (2,3,7)

23 The villainous wrong, tries to set right (8)

24 For now, only regulate it (6)

26 Got rid of the debris outside I had left (6) 27 Having had a good bit to drink, goes to pieces (6,2)

28 Peg, the girl on the outside, is lying (6)

29 The dope had a dream about a policeman (8) 1 Out of the blue, bowled a silly clot out (6)

2 The girl I am taking back home (6)

3 Cheeky girl the porter has in tow (7)

4 Not having the heart to attack (4)

6 Like a fool, he’s put on the garments (7)

7 Mother Leslie’s got nothing in for tea (8)

8 A down-and-out, say, is different in modern times (8)

11 Gather round the bed to see the lucky things (7)

14 The airmen, wrongly, took the side of the sailor (7)

16 Close-ups of VIPS? (3,5)

17 Rises and puts back the sand-blaster inside (6,2)

19 An exotic and strange sea-bird (7)

20 Cut one of the balls, having miscued (7)

21 He contracts, it seems, to look after the passengers (6)

22 The sound of someone walking: that’s plain (6)

25 That’s before I fell into the lake (4)