CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. It purrs about one’s putting one’s foot in it (7)

5. Is in a hurry to get one’s suit ironed (7)

9. Or, one sure somehow to be mistaken (9)

10. Weeps for Eric’s replacement (5)

11. The standard sort of vessel? (8)

12. Maul an old schoolgirl about (6)

14. It faces an alteration to be intriguing (9)

16. It returns, looking flushed and weary (5)

17. It flows out of the letter I’ve received (5)

19. Be trailed about so as to be set free (9)

21. Take lengthy steps on the street, then go on horseback (6)

22. Belief in the end recce brings about (8)

26. A go 2/5 Dutch have at making cheese (5)

27. Education closing? Oh, it could be (9)

28. They recount stories of bank employees (7)

29. Something that’s given right now (7)

DOWN

1. Ledge on which one was left single (5)

2. Raids on various encroachments (7)

3. Nurse turned out some letters from the past (5)

4. Making money could be trap: foil it! (10)

5. It’s a job to put it in the pillar-box (4)

6. Seat Carol has adapted to the moving staircase (9)

7. In Rheims, Monsieur might glisten (7)

8. Broke up the group as bend did, in a way (9)

13. State of belonging could be hers: I’m PM! (10)

14. Prescience one finds at the end of the barrel (9)

15. How I tread air in order to shine (9)

18. In effect it’s the reality of computer simulation (7)

20. Turn ten into an annuity scheme (7)

23. No worker, but no Red anyhow (5)

24. Figure cut on the ice by boat’s crew (5)

25. One half-sister was wife to Osiris (4)