CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
No 16,126
ACROSS
1 Wild unsettled American replaced by independent (11) 9 A king put in dubious offer for dubious profit (4-3) 10 Fatty substance made from an oil blended in London suburbs (7) 11 Harmful current legal limits (3) 12 Heartless girl abandons beautiful romantic (7) 13 Fellow, muscular, sadly lacking as prop (7) 14 Racket definitely isn’t needed at the start (3) 15 Former inmate, corrupt one, about 90 (2-3) 17 It concludes letter belonging to solver (5) 18 Wife praised corsets being waved (5) 20 Woman’s article bores the Spanish (5) 22 Bill thanks bishop (3) 24 Energetic revolutionary police arrest a lot (7) 25 Mayhem and frays in dining area (7) 26 Partially categorise one’s sense of self (3) 27 Counterfeit coin in vessel shows fabulous beast (7) 28 Old card game stuffy queen comes to love (7) 29 Book of Numbers showing signs of age? (6,5)
DOWN
1 Unpredictable person — Mr X perhaps? (7,8) 2 Club money in Stockholm that gets smelted (4,3) 3 Man’s going round providing sound equipment (2-3) 4 Fill nuts in cluster for bird (9) 5 How some languages differ to new colleague (7) 6 Lime in rum deters poor wino suffering this? (8,7) 7 Go wrong with short trip (6) 8 Dislike group of Hindustani musicians (6) 16 Edited score saves concert’s first finale becoming louder (9) 18 Element engendering special loathing (6) 19 Adhesive lubricant covers black swelling (7) 21 Housing lecturer going off to tour Germany (7) 23 Britain not so upset by tea party here? On the contrary (6) 25 Deal with second young animal (3,2)