CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Carpeting covers a very strong temporary framework (11) 9 Fund Poles blocking track (7) 10 A drunk’s about to eat a little Mexican pancake (7) 11 Insect ejecting odd bits of walnut (3) 12 Large retail complex makes error in text (7) 13 Foodie’s online image lacking heart? (7) 14 Crew commenced in the middle (3) 15 Drove quickly westwards, ejecting black discharge (5) 17 Pay tribute to each

officer obtaining cross (5) 18 Fake uniform found

in wetlands (5) 20 Horrible thing

in the dark (5) 22 Regularly

repair organ (3) 24 Discard line left

over in advert (4,3) 25 Doctor liaises in

European region (7) 26 The Spanish start

to keep big deer (3) 27 Arab leaders picked

up rocks (7) 28 The latest thing’s unwisely given out unfinished (2,5) 29 Tropical sickness could make you feel very low (6,5)

DOWN

1 Filming right inside ship’s kitchen’s fair game (8,7) 2 Confident when taken to court about origin of report (7) 3 Wild time among

leaders of far left (5) 4 Young animals irritate careless person in U.S. (9) 5 Motivate trendy

father to keep quiet (7) 6 Engineer urged natural gas as ingredient of cakes etc (10,5) 7 A run-down part of town hides unknown refuge (6) 8 Regret strike by

English theatre (6) 16 Display old policy

document (9) 18 Avoid heart

operation (6) 19 Len’s OK swimming across river? This may help (7) 21 Clean up fourth

ME city (3,4) 23 Use lots of paper and ruler making pipe cleaner (6) 25 Slalom maybe with fellows requires craft (5)

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