Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1 Let down sack? (10)

6 Brute sent over to collect large weight (4)

9 Nicest ripe bananas for beneficiaries (10)

10 Change, with turner turning? (4)

12 Weakling, politician joining women’s group (4)

13 Sailor and apostle wearing heavy cloth (9)

15 Dancing, skin becoming paler? (8)

16 A fop on top! (2, 4)

18 Lay out fashionable underwear (6)

20 Desirable thing to bank a metal — this one’s precious! (8) 23 Note Wagnerian work bubbling up (9)

24 See the numbers drop away every last one (4)

26 For example, duck in cricket perhaps? (4) 27 Restriction left impression (10)

28 Very little in supermarket in York (4)

29 When one sees the most tourists spring up, possibly? (4, 6)

DOWN 1

Challenge coming up in better adventure (4)

2 Bit dry, crackers on it (7)

3 Kitchen device fixed to tap with purpose (3-2, 7)

4 This writer after clear message that’s implicit (8)

5 Essence in tea urn, brewed (6) 7 Nanny eluding shambles (7)

8 In precarious position upon thin end of branch? (3, 2, 1, 4)

11 Recording new test case, listen in on evidence, firstly (8, 4) 14 Remove flimsy tube attached to ceiling (10)

17 Slow — as a bullet? (8) 19 Energy drinks tasting awful initially in organic compound (7) 21 Rest put on top of food in waste collectors (7)

22 Gear selected by swimmer cyclin’ over island (6)

25 Article working for unknown author (4)