Cryptic Crossword

SOLUTION

ACROSS:1 Penny whistle. 8 Chronic. 9 Distaff. 11 Identities. 12 Anti. 14 Neutrino. 16 Bandit. 17 Gab. 19 Answer. 21 Kedgeree. 24 Kind. 25 In hot water. 27 Dieting. 28 Ingénue. 29 Metalanguage.

DOWN: 1 Parvenu. 2 Nonstarter. 3 Yachting. 4 Hidden. 5 Sash. 6 Learned. 7 Action-packed. 10 Faint-hearted. 13 Wagga Wagga. 15 Oak. 18 Becoming. 20 Sincere. 22 Retinue. 23 Enigma. 26 Pisa.

ACROSS:

6 Bank finally stopping finance firm’s trickery (6,8)

9 Priest and monk retaining special part of blood (6)

10 Try Cecil’s new three wheeler (8)

11 Medicinal solution can remedy temperature internally (8)

13 A superior stream’s sort of brown (6)

15 Charge Arab engaged in quarrel (6)

17 Cuts out stable sections (6)

19 Very big victim that catches fish (6)

20 Woman wears pants unexpectedly (8)

22 Caviare distributed around grand minister’s house (8)

24 Absent-minded son getting spiteful (6)

26 Avoid directly answering British IQ test, huge one, complicated (3,3,8)

DOWN:

1 Long tract – illness meant it should be edited (5,9)

2 Responsibility, and where ours lies (4)

3 Familiar feeling exotic jade’s getting very posh (4,2)

4 Having high hopes, artist paints fancy boxes (8)

5 Lovelorn messenger’s sin (4)

7 Chef ’s covering pound (6)

8 Dignified ref inspects leg after treatment (4-10)

12 Helper’s CV showing lack of energy ( 5)

14 Erect a large chunk of wood (5)

16 Does it attract stick insects? (8)

18 Old boyfriend’s taken over heart of church office (6)

21 Help string player beginning to go off (6)

23 Vocalist? Get her to leave completely (4)

25 Cutting a police force (4)