CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Make out beauty hugging current rock musician, posh (11)

9. Cook luncheon without oxygen in submerged tube (7)

10. Rank speech, elongated to some extent (7) 11. Wool supplier from New England (3)

12. No less than 80 initially enter after much delay (2,5)

13. Weird sort wearing nothing? It takes one’s breath away (7)

14. Shot in court liquidated old barrister principally (3)

15. Sauce is French, with Italian water round it (5) 17. Old colonist, Irish patriot (5)

18. Scrap outhouse Republi can installed (5)

20. Dance artist embraces university doctor (5) 22. Horse & Hound (3) 24. The reason he has been dispatched? (7) 25. Edible plants stick in sediment (7)

26. Tease bloke (3) 27. Regularly beat Tulsa fanatic in gym (7)

28. Make Israel suspect Spain (7) 29. Particular police officers can evict bats (11)

Down

1. Like some pieces with hyphenated names (6-9) 2. Southern city representative welcomes a French tanner (7)

3. Tiny portion of land is rented out (5)

4. Mike supports naive bouncer where actors relax (5,4) 5. Hurriedly train in heats (2,5)

6. Many implore hero to develop former superstate (4,5,6) 7. Special stroke in pool that’s hard to interpret (6) 8. Strange tale about new king’s ornamental chain (6)

16. Lots of wild animals here, that’s plain (9)

18. Sibling brings in sheep for exercises (3-3)

19. I had put up with second month’s shocks (7) 21. Stan abandons Asian country and its cash (7) 23. Good escort’s well (6) 25. Cyril rebuilt theatre in Hammersmith (5)