CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 At short notice, tempt fate with a risky enterprise ( 9) 6 Did all the players turn into a road- race? It turned up ( 5) 9 Criticise doctor at work for making a popular sweet ( 7) 10 A new point of view can improve understanding ( 7) 11 Radioactive waste, by the end, is still unrefined ( 5) 12 A treasurer may have to settle debts, for example, downstream ( 9) 13 Detect a fragrant resin in some hotel emissions ( 5) 14 German states have to admit a man of property ( 9) 17 When laws start to be amended, so can’t go on any longer ( 4,5) 19 Insist on old decree, to be precise ( 5) 21 May blame overseas cruise for illegality, showing remorse ( 5,4) 24 Hint of apparition under cover ( 5) 26 Star laid up could still keep track of time ( 7) 27 A countryman may find it hard to leave a

game- bird ( 7) 28 Was daughter fit to settle down? ( 5) 29 A wood- worker may find fault with 25 down

( 9) DOWN 1 Use a savoury jelly in a spiced up recipe ( 5) 2 Opening with an English runner in most of 1 across, by choice ( 7) 3 Can day- centres or creches be regarded as hothouses? ( 9) 4 Undesirable characters without a friend in the world ( 9) 5 Took me back through an empty lobby to meet one of the Brontes ( 5) 6 Work, at some stage, getting into scale ( 5) 7 Hint to get out in order to press together ( 7) 8 Spell out how to play on stage ( 9) 13 Appreciated being celebrated, and promoted ( 9) 15 Is giving new information to an academic treatise, daily ( 9)

HUGH JOHNSON 16 At the start, have scope to work with tract of undeveloped land ( 4,5) 18 One academic field has scenic outlook, at the end ( 7) 20 First person with a new model was inflexible ( 7) 22 Hearing proof of 2 down in hard times ( 5) 23 Ancient artifact found in a derelict building ( 5) 25 Go inside to sign up for a race, at the end of

29 across ( 5)