SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Journalists round top of road go backwards, and go forwards (8) 5 Humiliated when getting into a cot (6) 9 Choice of representatives that makes one cross (8) 10 Mysterious stuff starts to obsess city clerk until leaving town (6) 12 Saying American lawyer is in time (5) 13 Understanding king currently on shelf (9) 14 Exit scene dramatically for a living (9) 15 Removes innards – courage needed (4) 17 Be fruitful,but encounter reversal (4) 19 Wrongly claim to be internally reactive (9) 23Brewed ales again provide relief from pain (9) 25 Ground corn that is cut in half (5) 26 Girl’s sphere mostly of aromatic plants (6) 27 Troublemaker got tiara smashed (8) 28 Allow to return, gripping fool’s fringe (6) 29 A vacant twit stopped and paid attention (8)

DOWN

1 Match official in step with book’s introduction (7) 2 Factory employee may be working (9) 3 Go back to entertain again (7) 4 Restoring takings mocks robber’s cover (8,4) 6 Support diary of pile of things to be done (7) 7 Waterway noise (5) 8 Spotted Dorothy before Edward (6) 11 Pad directly to last part (4,8) 16 Bore carried around real problems (9) 18 Tycoon’s mother and agent, possibly (7) 20 Bather swims round point to take in air (7) 21 Stuck her in mixed school (7) 22 Hidden store ending just for prestige (6) 24 Cards include right measurements (5)