CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Going the rounds and downing them (3-8) 9. Senior ministers are in it for the drink possibly (7) 10. U.S. forest-dweller raced round county in Colorado (7) 11. Helpful hint for summit (3) 12. Maintenance payments for big car kept by some (7) 13. Harry learnt about northern light (7) 14. Card game in smallest room (3) 15. Fowl disturbed - number escaped (5) 17. Dread losing face making wrong judgment (5) 18. Our star is on the rise in space (5) 20. Art supporter’s property contract first to finish (5) 22. Unspecified system somewhat whimsical in retrospect (3) 24. Warm-hearted princess in the pink (7) 25. Person in form leaves dear Parisian? (7) 26. Plug hole in bustle (3) 27. Overcome by guilt, has made changes (7) 28. Tanker diverted round Spain and filmed again (7) 29. Mother, say - she is lost for incidental words (11)

Down

1. Well-known busy wine shop run within state control (6,9) 2. Play truant in bed on holiday (4,3) 3. Irritable banker in The Wind In The Willows? (5) 4. Fighters scheme to split commercial goods (9) 5. Aroma in front of chancel seen to disperse (7) 6. Eccentric blokes got rich importing each vegetable (5,10) 7. It’s hard to understand silly laws about credit ... (6) 8. ... even more silly in near shambles (6) 16. Never load in wrong sequence with too much on (9) 18. Convivial, I carried in coals to be burnt (6) 19. Shiny fabrics do - hers maybe over a small length (7) 21. Sheds perhaps stolen mobile one’s pinched (4-3) 23. Remain at sea? He might (6) 25. Light element in concert orchestra (5)