CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 An early tape deteriorates in box (7,4) 9 Granny at first gets cross keeping me brushed (7) 10 Voice work organised in small circle (7) 11 Dine each Tuesday primarily (3) 12 American car allowed to drop new stripe (7) 13 Soul of German city church (7) 14 Step over nearly (3) 15 Canine avoids small boy with bow (5) 17 Top-class people ignoring good part of diary (5) 18 Asian garment I’d reversed, keeping very warm (5) 20 See how you look in some wintry onesies (3,2) 22 It helps brickie wearing boots with no front (3) 24 Tangled cable in Petty Officer’s control during test (7) 25 British choir demolished English bread (7) 26 Take advantage of American energy (3) 27 It’s hard to breathe in this fine song (4,3) 28 In rage, working men smelt this (4,3) 29 Theoretical creature is short one covered in fur (7,4)

DOWN

1 Career boxer’s beginning to miss — more of this needed? (15) 2 Man supports miners collectively, not using letters (7) 3 Left Arab port loaded (5) 4 Hit by the Beatles: ‘You once strayed away’ (9) 5 Angry Tories welcoming party leader’s clever reply (7) 6 Possibly a long hectic task competing thus at Badminton (7,3,5) 7 Goods kept in upended deep-red food container (3,3) 8 Arrive with lady, disheartened but attractive (6) 16 Mix up orrisroot and poppy head, not cut rose to make this? (9) 18 Responsibility includes disc number two (6) 19 They cover Poles in charge of room facing north (7) 21 Robinia cultivated somewhere in Africa (7) 23 Dredge nearly all of pool under diving board (6) 25 Jack and I denied Chinese city’s existence (5)