Across | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
1 | LIFT UP | |
Raise living things, mostly sheep (4,2) | LIF(e) + TUP | |
5 | ENTREATY | |
Request to take food into lobby (8) | EAT inside ENTRY | |
9 | STEPMOTHER | |
Unnatural parent sprayed pet covered in thick floating dust (10) | Anagram of PET inside SMOTHER | |
10 | POPE | |
People not supporting the Spanish church leader (4) | PEOPLE minus EL | |
11 | DROP-GOAL | |
Score from drive by Australian basketball player taking turn (4-4) | DR + (OPAL outside GO) | |
12 | YANKEE | |
One in New York recalled keen, underdeveloped baseballer? (6) | (A inside NY reversed) + KEE(n) | |
14 | KIDNEY | |
Kind youngster returned money found in Japan (6) | KID + YEN reversed | |
15 | NEST EGGS | |
Teens exchanged horses for funds providing financial security (4,4) | Anagram of TEENS + GGS | |
17 | AGGRIEVE | |
Break the heart of Greek that is five in age (8) | (GR + IE + V) inside AGE | |
20 | ENTIRE | |
One tucking into first course almost is full (6) | I inside ENTRE(e) | |
22 | REBUFF | |
Check polish again (6) | Double definition | |
24 | ENCAMPED | |
Caped men dismantled pitched tents (8) | Anagram of CAPED MEN | |
25 | DIED | |
Turned a different colour in audience and passed away (4) | Sounds like DYED | |
27 | VINDICTIVE | |
Spiteful four scored after charge in middle of over? (10) | (IV after INDICT) inside o(VE)r | |
28 | TEMPORAL | |
Passing patrol shuffled around me on the way back (8) | Anagram of PATROL outside ME reversed | |
29 | DRYERS | |
Doctor, full of alcohol, hooked up with first of several laundry workers (6) | (RYE inside DR) + S | |
Down | Answers and Clues | Explanations |
2 | INTERMINGLE | |
Eminent girl organised merge (11) | Anagram of EMINENT GIRL | |
3 | TOPSPIN | |
Warne might use this backward position in front of leg (7) | SPOT reversed + PIN | |
4 | PROTOTYPE | |
Original page converted to poetry (9) | P + anagram of TO POETRY | |
5 | ECHELON | |
The man captured by clone manipulated a level of command (7) | HE inside anagram of CLONE | |
6 | TARDY | |
Contents of hydrate turned up late (5) | hYDRATe reversed | |
7 | EXPANSE | |
Former partner looks around last piece of office space (7) | EX + PANS + E | |
8 | TIP | |
Clue list (3) | Double definition | |
13 | EAGER BEAVER | |
Keen person brewed average beer (5,6) | Anagram of AVERAGE BEER | |
16 | STEPCHILD | |
Somebody else’s kid pitches wildly over heads of little darlings (9) | Anagram of PITCHES + LD | |
18 | ROUND UP | |
Group function interrupted by old fool mostly (5,2) | RUN outside O + DUP(e) | |
19 | ETERNAL | |
Permanent cross cut out of surface (7) | EXTERNAL minus X | |
21 | TIMOTHY | |
Biblical writer’s haymaker? (7) | Double definition | |
23 | FEVER | |
Fellow always with an abnormally high body temperature (5) | F + EVER | |
26 | ICE | |
Cool down components of graphic equaliser (3) | graphIC Equaliser |