Crossword

ACROSS

1 Improvises as daughter inside bails out (2-4)

4 What’s needed to log in American before touring Vietnam? (8)

10 Pompous crowing involving doctor in charge (9)

11 Player’s agent ignoring fine (5)

12 Type of furry creature – work with very large number (7)

13 Annual publication bound by local man, a craftsman (7)

14 Victor leaking wife’s secret (5)

15 Former sweetheart, model, dancing round apartment, briefly (3,5)

18 A theologian facing ruin, then Greek character backed supplement (8)

20 Husband sitting in pleasant recess (5)

23 Western flea, unusually large thing? (7)

25 Conspirator died close to huge waterfall (7) 26 Band in bad taste originally, upon reflection (5) 27 Simon, perhaps, having tot with painter right away (9) 28 Ritz, say, providing more comfortable time for male (8) 29 Member of the clergy in park by hill (6)

DOWN

1 Delicious food in the morning? Bishop more cheerful, we hear (8)

2 Satirise a politician taken in by simple-minded person (7)

3 Head removed from fish covered in cheese in restaurant (9)

5 Radical comes to fancy party member (6,8)

6 Newly-created earl, leader of men in field (5)

7 Word of opposite meaning – not many for changing (7)

8 What could be nicer? Hotel upgrade (6)

9 Small cap designed to meet the needs of duke crossing battle site (8,6) 16 Comes down on head creating scene (9)

17 Rat in waste, rolling about (8) 19 Fall away, so give up (4,3) 21 Talk about run out round island in ceremonial carriage (7) 22 Second look at cloth sample (6)

24 Schoolchild’s young dog left lying under one (5)