CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. In which, clutching silver, corpus has rotted? (11) 9. River’s quiet, soon curving around north (7) 10. Fruit bed replaces first of lilacs in springtime (7) 11. Finish off remedy for mutt (3) 12. They use broadcast to get some sleep (7) 13. The more complicated, the more proof it needs? (7) 14. Public relations officer’s advantage (3) 15. Fanatic who appears in ‘Stamboul Train’ (5) 17. It’s cased in bronze for forerunner of Olympians (5) 18. Roman Catholic priest brought in historic object (5) 20. Stylish American lawyer tours one populous country (5) 22. Island nearly finishes young journalist (3) 24. Jazz man welcomes empty nightclub (7) 25. Don’t ignore latest piece of evidence about duke (7) 26. Hostelry, one with two names (3) 27. Quiet Middle Easterner left without newspaper story (7) 28. Start to take mixed cereal and syrup (7) 29. Accommodation where you welcome in the student? (5,6)

Down

1. Second beauty title for sculpted NY torchbearer (6,2,7) 2. Poem hidden in Gironde auberge (7) 3. Big cat previously seen circling university (5) 4. Following red card, boy secures new centre of support (9) 5. Perhaps wrap good pieces during painting (7) 6. UN top brass manoeuvre circuitously with NEC (8,7) 7. Section of abstruse supplement is exhausting (4,2) 8. Part of plant meant to develop after start of summer (6) 16. Last day of June, and Pearl’s anniversary (9) 18. Way to achieve mature inspiring English clubs (6) 19. Cairo ordered university to retain British reindeer (7) 21. A nice ramshackle theatre, very old (7) 23. Gun protects writer in German city (6) 25. First few bars go up in a fortnight (5)