DFA Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1 Fleeing airhead dropped into landing strip (3,4)

5 Confirm and abet our troubles (4,3) 9 Applied to be Yeltsin’s successor (3,2) 10 Name again as harvest period (9) 11 Pick out chess move during random examination (4,5)

12 Lance boils and bathe (5)

13 On list that requires surgery (6)

15 Spice put half an hour into the metric system (8)

18 Basic emptiness of the Alaska border? (8)

19 Dead Egyptian conductor in a bus crash (6)

22 Misrepresent legal centre’s involvement in resolving feud (5)

24 Mark made by running on the wicket six times? (9)

26 Hanging back as Tory leader joined in with organised religion (9)

27 Mobile unit left up to that time (5) 28 Build up to the level of silver class (7) 29 Looked down on, having seen out communist (7)

DOWN

1 Store up devastating riposte (7)

2 Small unit rocked by explosive components (5)

3 Cooling effect of victory over heartless Democratic eminence (4-5)

4 Delivery of duck in parts of Kerry (6) 5 Faint from shortage during fight (5,3) 6 Jelly snake with sticky insides (5) 7 Dressed a lovebird in uniform colour (5,4)

8 Ship not exactly intact after smashing into tip of the iceberg (7)

14 There’s a prohibition on goat breeding It’s the truth! (2,7)

16 Redrew one map with application to change of life (9)

17 Bar over the duration, or straight away (2,2,4)

18 Crop of twice fifty percent being topped by one (7)

20 Fine having been paid (7)

21 Negative votes reported on utterances from the mount (6)

23 Medical treatment in the middle of Dame Nellie’s comeback (5)

25 Lay in the ground in topless season (5)