SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Likes whimsical notions (7) 5 Seen to have been shot a second before (7) 9 Mad black takes part in attack (5) 10 Some bread one took to a group of crabs (9) 11 Business Cagney was involved in (6) 12 In return help people to make a bitter denunciation (8) 14 An apprentice sailor seen in church? (5) 15 Form of quail, for example - one standing by a flower (9) 18 His clothes are often for sale (4,5) 20 Return and surrender (5) 22 Inclination to be song writer, in the first place (8) 24 Alice is worried about Rex and her (6) 26 But actually a song like a golden oldie (9) 27 Bullets which damage one’s plants (5) 28 Part of London where the church choir is (4,3) 29 Did carry a gun and will do a stretch (7)

DOWN

1 It warns of one actual intrusion in Giles’s place (4-5) 2 Jack lets out the most illustrious (7) 3 Once I’d been upset by odd and improper behaviour (9) 4 Do you put your foot in it when you hit someone? (4) 5 Painstakingly behaving like a swot (10) 6 Less than half the month on extraterrestrial work (5) 7 Marking the mattress cover material (7) 8 Duck used to catch fish (5) 13 Girl had gone out of East Berks. town (10) 16 Do they sign their letters ‘yours faithfully’? (9) 17 Applied oneself to the task and made the speech (9) 19 Soldiers return into a Northern county (7) 21 New recipe without nut kernel might appeal to him (7) 22 Not all tranquillity, so to speak (5) 23 The Dutch city in which there’s a huge reconstruction (5) 25 Ultimately, one girl? (4)