CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Flighty deb burns bra as well as other stretchy items (6,5)

9 Puts paste on wall again

or alters its dimensions (7) 10 Section of extremist rally a

severe blow in France (7)

11 Service throws out

Republican woman (3)

12 Big car covered by a New York spouse’s maintenance (7)

13 Junior editor’s job, swapping tips for odds and ends (7)

14 Head back for cask (3)

15 Lie about and yarn (5)

17 Craving debut of

Gunther Grass (5)

18 Ties up boat people originally from Mauretania (5)

20 Rave about what connects Sussex to Lancashire (5) 22 Back of neck mostly showing hairs that may stand up (3)

24 Like this puzzle or some tablets? (7) 25 Weariness of old monkey running round (7) 26 Dread forgetting odd parts of rag week (3) 27 Request ballet jump champion’s omitted (7) 28 Sterile spacesuit redesigned without U.S. (7) 29 Green cornfield cultivated within edges of estuary (3-8)

DOWN

1 Risky game in which only one round matters? (7,8)

2 Leave phone

on holiday (4,3)

3 Try mid-west,

for example (5)

4 Please do stay

with me (2,2,5)

5 Cook began including very large item at Nag’s Head? (7)

6 Maintain hard work in

accountancy, say (7,8) 7 Bunking off, throwing

tantrum nonstop (6)

8 Devoted daughter

bolted perhaps (6)

16 Complaint by diner, one guarding tower (9)

18 Police cross river in Wales for weapon once (6)

19 Bendy bus froze, starter failing in such conditions? (7) 21 Supplier of oil (diesel) managed to take in north (7)

23 Buccaneering sleuth

somewhat crude (6) 25 Rent lake with

no bother (5)