CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Happily bring out old American during display (12) 8 Overhear a chemist receiving listener’s complaint (7) 9 Second edition to do with children (7) 11 Potentially nine more go where plant is on board (6,4) 12 Whistle excessively close to pilot (4) 14 Mexican state’s female groups broadcast (8) 16 Information on woman somewhere in Switzerland (6) 17 Settled where Pierre spends the night? (3) 19 Enjoy dressing (6) 21 After parking, a number dispersed in shade (8) 24 Clasp European of

vast dimensions (4) 25 Top singer, demure, heading off another one (5,5) 27 Risk tablet to control stray fat (7) 28 Top half of bikini raised objections heard in farm (7) 29 Maybe slip foreign articles beside man holding weapon (12)

DOWN

1 Person who gathers food on behalf of a German (7) 2 Terse comment claims icon’s forged (10) 3 Bright child getting reprimand, by the sound of it (8) 4 Stimulate top-class service in fashion (4,2) 5 One part of assembly (4) 6 Material is somehow thin and supple on the inside (7) 7 Radio vessel in which bankrupt may end up (12) 10 Show perhaps wide vehicle touring Georgia and South Africa (12) 13 Judge not fit to control daughter may be paid back (10) 15 It opens and closes code in US (3) 18 Brewer’s crew accompanies a royal couple (3-5) 20 Make more 3 bleach (7) 22 Veto hunt without special feast (7) 23 Forgetting name, extend introduction to Americans (6) 26 Start to debate drink and depression (4)

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