CLASSIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Backwards gent in place is fastidious person (6)

4 Intensity with weapon, through being discontented (6)

8 Returned thump producing lump (4) 9 Lewdness by each rude deviant (10) 11 Reportedly best, cooler event outdoors (6)

12 Obsessive over clear shelf (3-5) 13 Virus free in one vacated compound (8)

15 Call for attention from ship replacing content in port (4)

16 Noise of fly making us touchy (4) 17 Went by water beside coastal structure that's more miry (8)

21 Garbled polemic beginning to rile

Boz, perhaps (8)

22 Idler of this kind consumes half of

loaf (6)

24 Businessperson is on farm to split

wages (10)

25 Tense finding rubbish around

university (4)

26 Lack of cover that would make

crackers untidy (6)

27 Caught mesh on wings of young

bird (6)

DOWN

1 Religious leader's huff after pressure working (7)

2 Crime fighter dressing away from the base (5)

3 Charmer becomes slimmer after exchanging tips (7) 5 People supporting a copper's insight (6)

6 Hamish with air that's agitated Hindu instructor (9) 7 Bean found after top's brought down in carriage (7)

10 Billion ways with language used as weapons (11) 14 Immature cook peed in urn (9)

16 Old bishop wearing cross and pouch (7)

18 Good person, monarch blocking former PM'S command (7)

19 Sport taking place in playing field, it's for novice (7)

20 Model hot lad dated (3-3) 23 Frequently calm down when leader's left (5)

ACROSS

1 Jewish temple (9)

8 Poultry pen (4)

9 Perplexed (9)

10 Set of matching shoes (4)

13 Cuffs, clouts (5) 16 Follow-my-leader dance (5)

17 Bungling (5)

18 Inspect for correctness (5) 19 Supposed baby bringer (5)

20 Reddish hair preparation (5) 21 Teams (5)

24 Opera composed by

Verdi in 1871 (4)

27 Conjurers (9)

28 Highest volcano in

Europe (4)

29 Flouting authority (9)

DOWN

2 Plaything operated by a flick of the wrist (2-2) 3 Divisions of a play (4)

4 Edible waste parts of a carcase (5)

5 Expend (3,2)

6 Protein-rich seeds (4,5)

7 Light musical dramas (9)

11 Moved round a rink (3-6) 12 Shrouding (9)

13 Hessian bags (5)

14 Make adjustments to (5) 15 Adherents of a Punjabi religion (5) 22 Very angry (5)

23 Ban from a country (5)

25 Foot of a window (4)

26 Author not known (4)