CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Help to explain cost halting works (4,5,2)
9 Note in travel bag by daughter describing some clothes? (7)
10 Tiny man in vacant grounds features in a schedule? (7)
11 Surprised expression from tech obsessive ending early (3)
12 British writer enthralled by fancy ruse to see cat (7)
13 Hinged panel closed by terrace without strain (7)
14 Longing for bread in Tokyo? (3)
15 Cellist rued playing around piano (2,3)
17 Anger retained by a Democrat is broadcast (5)
18 Put back in place first of exhibits among others (5)
20 River, a Scottish one, reveals dangerous gas (5)
22 Robert’s style of hair cut short (3)
24 Central characters in both magazine and tragic play (7)
25 Fashionable English city needing no introduction (5-2)
26 Originally called requirement when without degree (3)
27 U.S. vegetable? Swap one if rotten (4,3)
28 U.S. writer occupied almost describing hard Greek god (7)
29 Divulge rate formulated for something to assist tourists? (6,5)
DOWN
1 A chatterer soon possibly around end of spiel has to cough slightly (5,4,6)
2 Delay part of census pending (7)
3 Comic novelist David in a group of masons (5)
4 Philanthropist with teacher wielding power in Tyneside town (9)
5 Team excitedly consuming a lot of unadulterated Japanese food (7)
6 Blatant brute in novel about love describing secret comments? (3-12)
7 Southern taxi driver covered in blisters? (6)
8 Article with filthy stuff’s held up female (6)
16 Clerical residence thus given name in standard time (9)
18 Start with extremes of subtlety describing full-blooded music? (6)
19 Greek character enthralled by a tail flickering in African fish (7)
21 Cocktail, say, wrong when uncovered in Northern Ireland (7)
23 Expel fool wasting time in party (6)
25 Attach again note linked to Margaret (5)