CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Make a mistake — cut camellias in the wrong places (12)
8 Give peerage to benevolent comic, ignoring vet (7)
9 A large posh club, say, backed count (7)
11 Baker let in obstreperous kid in Sydney (5-5)
12 Work with aluminium and stone (4)
14 Tracy and Ida sculpted figure in Greek temple (8)
16 Left twice, passing over a doorway (6)
17 Primarily fanciful and eccentric, finally quirky? (3)
19 Score at top of dartboard (6)
21 Indebted, having been kept space for cargo (8)
24 Popular church includes vault (4)
25 I hire space especially for rugs (10)
27 Some land or vehicle for farmer (7)
28 Horrible smell in a new packaging (7)
29 My Gaelic tool cleverly showing word origins (12)
DOWN
1 Picked up girl’s name (7)
2 Boat occupants who rent at lower level? (10)
3 Pre-meal drink provided after pirate broadcast (8)
4 Programmer packing in golf — he’s getting on (6)
5 Escape stormy lake (4)
6 Proclaim old hearing aid (7)
7 Nearly all remember citizen rave that’s belligerent (12)
10 Song Della and Angus rendered about turn of New Year? (4,4,4)
13 Huge new moon illuminated hotel in Cannes initially (10)
15 One who’s joining society plot after revolution (3)
18 City at last making money – yen (8)
20 Note short bloke in hospital department entrance (7)
22 Like our currency it’s claimed to be everywhere (7)
23 Cooper makes this go fast (6)
26 Staunch supporter of plant (4)
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