SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Quiet stroll by the butcher’s stall (7)

5 The old boy has to wait and see (7)

9 Riverside bird (5) 10 How one caught the man behind ‘Socialist Worker’? (3-6)

11 You finally discover misprint about Townshend (6)

12 Told storyline (4-4) 14 Heights reached by marauding Danes (5) 15 They’re off! (9)

18 Take down girl’s cloak (9)

20 Kelly’s attractive quality (5)

22 It’s correct form on the Conservative side (3,5)

24 The way Jack confronts church formality (6)

26 Cockney eyes the food (5,4)

27 A main German title (5)

28 Poorly translated ‘nota bene’, missing out a key part (3,4)

29 Gets under cover (7)

DOWN

1 Little worker used to take notes (9)

2 Fool rued being overconfident (7)

3 Fragments of basalt and ice water (6,3)

4 Work for throughout the year, night and day

(4)

5 Expose Rudi as a parricide (7,3)

6 State, ‘Dad’s in the wrong’ (5)

7 The painter Lawrence making a girl inwardly shine (7)

8 The Spanish fellow Griffiths (5)

13 Dancer hurling cat about (6,4)

16 Black horse appearing in a vision (9)

17 Carol’s nightwatchmen (9)

19 The day I catch the stuff (7)

21 Stuffy, bald Cockney (7)

22 Wrong about the second boy (5) 23 One-man woman (5) 25 Old dues settled (4)