SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Succeeded when put on the straight and narrow (4,4)

5 Singled out the child with the broken nose (6) 9 “Flower Shop” runs into the lead, unexpectedly (8) 10 Conclude the underwear has been put out for the lady (6) 12 Bother! That means there’s a baby about (6) 13 A dull “New stock of tools” (8)

15 The right thing to do or have, if you want to study seriously (6,6) 18 The retired goalkeeper is not what you’d expect (3,2,7) 23 The set of the ears, confident, does encourage one (8) 24 Mum is turning back, having advanced (6) 26 Add the lady is taken aback by the hostility (6) 27 Disrespectful about the Latin sonnet I composed (8)

28 An odd concoction containing egg-flip followed (6)

29 Did an imitation of a chime in it that was attractive (8)

DOWN

1 Only the silver lining is not enough (6)

2 Vice in American politics (6)

3 The rough-spoken person in the carriage (7) 4 Too many getting across (4)

6 You’ll get hot air and nothing else from him (7) 7 Certain to have nice work in an easy job (8) 8 What you decline to give (that’s insoluble) (2,6)

11 Strikes the day before, to show the governors

(7)

14 Seems like a roll of paper inside (7)

16 Not a straight definition of an unsatisfactory employee (4,4)

17 It’s smart to restrain the boy from wandering off (8)

19 The fellow is convinced there’s a split (7)

20 The first few are horrid (7)

21 Show a bar is holding it up (6)

22 Said the daughter had gone to some part of America (6)

25 Bark for a biscuit (4)