Thursday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Palaces. 5 Pitfall. 9 Scrub. 10 Materials. 11 Diesel. 12 Contract. 14 Buyer. 15 Newcastle. 18 Estimator. 20 Crawl. 22 Graphite. 24 Bowing. 26 Appointed. 27 Apart. 28 Sheaths. 29 Stetson.

Down: 1 Paso doble. 2 Largely. 3 Cablegram. 4 Sump. 5 Put forward. 6 Tarot. 7 Adamant. 8 Liszt. 13 Institutes. 16 Anchorage. 17 Enlighten. 19 Trample. 21 Animals. 22 Glass. 23 Hoist. 25 Odes.