CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 TV quiz in which bad luck rests with Bob (12) 8 A n admirer tours Grand Hotel with one Kabul citizen (7) 9 In battered Sierra Victor turns up (7) 11 Broadcast an edition about whiskey everywhere in country (10) 12 Get engaged in middle of game show (4) 14 An awful pity about Latin being non-standard (8) 16 Ring tax firm returning book (6) 17 Legendary bird in ‘The Sound Of Music’? (3) 19 It depends on cow we’d sent back to drink (6) 21 Woman, upperclass, invested in top style every year (3,5) 24 Calm artist’s supporter? Not entirely (4) 25 Decides to stop excavations (10) 27 Helping waiter’s job (7) 28 Authorise small space to appear before heading (7) 29 Sound of favourite young colt primarily during trims? (8-4)

DOWN

1 Major Tory modified intolerance of other views (7) 2 Actor trained with one during test of public speaking (10) 3 King close to covering it with woollens (8) 4 State in Africa united with Georgia and elsewhere (6) 5 Italian city gets rid of one bend (4) 6 I arrive drunk in tourist destination (7) 7 Want sardines to be processed in coastal town (5,7) 10 Who organises the classroom? (12) 13 Get lost carrying piano etc, found amongst this waste? (5,5) 15 Cut off large old pine at the top (3) 18 Where Anglicans gathered nearby, having lost odd members? (8) 20 Good-for-nothing used to be about in heart of Scotland (7) 22 Poles wear no shirt all the time (7) 23 Hound British bird (6) 26 Floppy disk setter’s installed (4)