Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1 First sign of heaped earth a bird’s scattered a minute distance (5,7)

8 Anonymous retired chap concealed by shifting dune (7)

9 Bishop in a pile arranged day to see horse (7)

11 Piece of bread with a container containing English crab, say (10)

12 Loud laughter featuring in show lately (4)

14 Fool accepting more confident firms supplying cover (8)

16 Infected patient ultimately appearing in Home Counties film (6)

17 Noticed a hand tool (3)

19 Friendly person employed on a temporary basis (6)

21 Holiday worker enters ground cited as falling to pieces (8)

24 Works losing time bringing troubles (4)

25 Engineer grabs files showing reinforced material (10)

27 Duncan is agitated receiving European having complex qualities? (7)

28 Learner in Welsh town given two poor grades for a poem (7)

29 Feel annoyance with direction to one knitting by

hand? (3,3,6)

DOWN

1 Queens, perhaps, get privileges (7)

2 This person’s fabric is unimportant (10)

3 Strangely crass idea to overlook a number of cocktails (8)

4 Parrot something to provoke complaints from viewers? (6)

5 Men with no money for beers (4)

6 Remove ticket supplier around musical facility (4,3)

7 Duo catch unit that’s disrupted a method of selling (5,7)

10 Varied sites cleaned in food store (12)

13 Dishevelled British journalist in tatty clothes around back of school (10)

15 Son given bill is miserable (3)

18 Omani, maybe, left to probe tiny characteristic of a good garment? (8)

20 Retrieve very minimal silver in deal (7)

22 Calm area over time in location (7)

23 Young female hiding diamonds and emeralds initially in belt (6)

26 Second bed for a Celt (4)