CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 16,370

ACROSS

1 Such a well-run organisation causes derailments strangely! (11) 9 Come back about firm backing retired old police (7) 10 A fly bites Middle East tycoon (7) 11 Commercial operation’s first trouble (3) 12 Writer used this at home to put out broadcast (7) 13 Section sorted out bills (7) 14 Chief omits one piece (3) 15 Serious award accepted by sister (5) 17 Stop gent abandoning cleaner (5) 18 Cook last pieces of buffalo, its innards (5) 20 US city very quietly imports superior drink (3,2) 22 Belt, or another fastener (3) 24 Coppers briefly detain me about verbal attack (7) 25 Keeps gathering in money in Budapest... (7) 26 ...and money in Bucharest, some people infer (3) 27 Czech composer came across a number in South America (7) 28 Student occasionally forgets that female (7) 29 Macho MPs put off means of evacuation (7,4)

DOWN

1 Seasonal gifts for calves, perhaps? (8,7) 2 Head of sport’s rejected serious problem for children (7) 3 Auditor’s girl left when demoted (5) 4 Sweet doormen managed to break record (5,4) 5 Denied obligation to pack gun (7) 6 Binary nationality displayed in such detail with 22 (4,11) 7 Old chestnut is swallowed by president mostly (6) 8 Jet pilot eyes Greek flying round (6) 16 Hood’s disguise in Crimean port (9) 18 Disagree with workplace? (6) 19 Gambol madly around university, getting backache (7) 21 Normal location of event limited upstart (7) 23 Secretaries taste bakery output (6) 25 Resolve tiff with husband in interval (5)