CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 She sleeps on windy square in despair (12) 8 Untidy heap masks stone inscription (7) 9 Transfer hot writer’s old folios (4,3) 11 Income isn’t strangely typical of quiz champions (10) 12 What to some extent makes a good pudding? (4) 14 Protective item of national dress in Amsterdam (5,3) 16 Very popular daughter appears in other cast (3-3) 17 Helium and nitrogen layer (3) 19 It refreshes one primarily in car when moving (3-3) 21 Person with refined tastes ate these nuts (8) 24 Unprepossessing guy managed to drink litres (4) 25 Unexpected if tortuous novel (10) 27 Is he too selfabsorbed, say, to sit elsewhere? (7) 28 Writer’s recruited male professional to get better (7) 29 Letters may be cagey, tense, receiving little thanks (6,6)

DOWN

1 Lock controller initially hears song on the web (7) 2 Kindergarten puts child into ball game (10) 3 Snobbish Delilah had moved, avoiding the Spanish (3-2-3) 4 Drive by, taking in horse statue in Egypt (6) 5 English flower upset star (4) 6 Tolerate first half of Scottish ham, stewed (7) 7 Acquired habit to support the environment (6,6) 10 Guide sent in former pioneers in the West (12) 13 Philip of Spain welcomes dry new writer (4-3,3) 15 Reduced fruit seed (3) 18 Young bird getting comfortable (8) 20 Undergarments feasible in limousine (4-3) 22 Shift money around business, showing thrift (7) 23 Large old articles not able to stand (6) 26 Old man entertains fourth opera singer (4)