Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Staunch Pole in treacherous old Eastern capital (14) 10 West Indian switched to car in Peru (6,5) 11 Help servant take off her top (3) 12 Hot-headed spots on the skin (4) 13 Plant is paid badly by university faculty in return (10) 15 Failing to develop vibrato sections before the end of the piece (8) 16 Split with speed of light up before holiday (6) 19 Enlarge or shrink text endlessly (6) 20 Reduce the volume and go blue (4,4) 23 Lovely appearance of clothing strung up around a store (10) 25 Gag the last of the passengers to enter plane (4) 27 Carpet three quarters of China (3) 28 With pesto, ate two serves of vegetable (5,6) 29 Crown dependency’s wasteland, less an inch (7,7)

DOWN

2 Go too far with a film of six balls? (9) 3 Loose ties to the plot (4) 4 Scratching bar is out in the street (8) 5 Alarm bell can be ringing regular forces (6) 6 Peaceable and not about to cover conflict in novel (10) 7 Scheme, given time, works (5) 8 Final moves of tragically aged men (7) 9 Special statuary, say, set high above a Greek city (6) 14 Means to make child a cathedral builder? (10) 17 Already mentioned a van’s 11-across (9) 18 Throbs unless regularly inserted between heads (8) 19 Bound, with jumping mice, to only be found locally (7) 21 Point man made on lacking leadership in the country (6) 22 Not like a bore to be out of sorts (6) 24 Supplementary tax rate’s not at fault (5) 26 Goat butchered by Caesar’s outfit (4)