cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Authoritarian director in a

broadcast (11)

9 French article’s put in because

it’s quiet (7)

10 Inquisitive about, say, a posy

(7)

11 Feminine work affected man

(3)

12 Bullfighters’ restroom almost

in turmoil (7)

13 A bad habit masks a rare

covetousness (7)

14 Finish off first course, producing little change (3)

15 Perhaps buff coach and horses every now and then (5)

17 Those in trouble show characteristic spirit (5)

18 One pursued by rampaging

Cortez stealing gold (5)

20 Bay that is sort of square,

flooding Holland (5)

22 Nearly ring back to get help

(3)

24 What you say on leaving majority of cheese and port (7)

25 Beer for man on board? (7)

26 Golfer likes a good one, a

whopper perhaps? (3)

27 Around college, foreign 20s

use it to make pattern (7)

28 Room 101 recalled coverage

of Poles? (7)

29 Means to survive in business

etc. when bankrupt (11)

DOWN

1 Rum in lime deters drunk suffering this? (8,7)

2 Musical direction annoys

Robin in company (3,4)

3 Reduces area of sails to avoid

running into these? (5)

4 No plainer changes, no better

example (9)

5 Establish where dead monarchs lay? (7)

6 Using hall abroad, hire outside means of communication (7,8)

7 A sibling retains computer

systems unaltered (2,2,2)

8 Grassy area, say, taken as read

in French schools (6)

16 Home Office census cuts just

over 100 common folk (3,6)

18 Bring charge against copper

in complex case (6)

19 Caught bucking bronco in

maize (7)

21 Item in part payment’s awfully dear in old money (5-2)

23 Hate extremely defensive

international game (6)

25 Believer to stop ignoring

saint (5)