CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 16,760

ACROSS

1 Clear instructions by

dentist? (4-3-4) 9 Robot’s designer genes

all reversed (7) 10 Duke once foolishly hosted a German figure (7) 11 Some remuneration for

runner in Perth? (3) 12 Rig goes haywire, having

taken in more water (7) 13 Church governing body’s

part of book (7) 14 Representative adopts

a plan (3) 15 Northern Irish IT supplier backs sources of fresh water (5) 17 Worker leaves gazelles perhaps to run away (5) 18 Typically blue material unearthed on way back (5) 20 Milk supplier’s child-minder (5) 22 It may be laid, say, on top of ground (3) 24 Talked about experiment with paper boat in the past (7) 25 Muslim leader’s wife goes in to consult an analyst (7) 26 No good abandoning young solver (3) 27 Dispatch forged coins found on fringes of garden (7) 28 Credit limited by drink? That’s daylight robbery! (5-2) 29 Blue team member (5-6)

DOWN

1 Retired person briefly appears in soaps without sons (3-3,9) 2 The effect of water or

wind or noise possibly (7) 3 Disturbing one may

result in dread (5) 4 Holmes’s skill? The opposite of what 3 does (9) 5 Run round English

court area (7) 6 Circus act by tipsy pale

worker, wobbling? (9,6) 7 Plant wood next

to motorway (6) 8 Awkward turn follows hairpin at end of race? Wrong (6) 16 My French teachers hide answer — underground fruit (6,3) 18 Couldn’t stand up to

secure Charlie’s part (6) 19 Assembly place for

drivers over in China (7) 21 Like noisy fans, genially disorderly after ace sent off? (7) 23 Brandy makes grand vocalist, some might say (6) 25 One’s going up to eat American hot and cold food (5)