CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Illicitly published, rid tape of it (7)

5. Attested how one was removed from high office (7)

9. Might natter about a writer showing sorrow (9)

10. They are inclined to tip prams over (5)

11. Thin fracture that recedes when balding (8)

12. Investment one doesn’t keep to oneself (6)

14. Dawdling cup-maker taking a mixed gin (9)

16. Din is one that circulates (5)

17. Dream about having a gun (5)

19. One sure or, it could be, mistaken (9)

21. Muslim leader needing a dried fruit (6)

22. Dislike of a rendering of it (8)

26. In one pound weight put back a buckwheat pancake (5)

27. Gloomy planet with rings in the East (9)

28. Takes on staff and gets into the gear (7)

29. When nothing is said about it being golden (7) DOWN 1. Where a bird rests on fish (5)

2. Further issue of book arranged by printer (7) 3. According to key, it’s in fact on a latch (5)

4. They descend from the roof in narrow trousers (10) 5. Facts given are a little upsetting (4)

6. Greek temple to Pan (not her sort) (9)

7. How the USA arm one as a Japanese warrior (7) 8. A girl’s flowers are calamitous things (9) 13. Grave as tag can be, it makes it worse (10) 14. Readily believable, to be a pull is possible (9) 15. Arousing affection in grandee maybe (9) 18. Dissolving, it may go to pot (7)

20. A view of work in one taking on (7)

23. River – a Russian one – of the countryside (5) 24. Girl in the piece innocently overturned (5) 25. Around the Southeast, American is on drugs (4)