CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Renovated half of digs near White Cliffs city (3,4)

5 Returning pouch, British dandy left the dock (4,3)

9 Grandmothers down an aspirin (well, not completely) (5)

10 Metric unit (large one) inspired by shocking experiment at Yale (9)

11 Fearless in backing saucy Freudian topic (8)

12 Enabling democracy in California (6)

14 Get moving part to play for audition (4)

15 Notified about hesitation time in commercials (10)

18 Successful poseur dancing with some characters twice (10)

19 Ontario victory being broadcast (2,2)

22 Butter applied to a Beverly Cleary heroine (6)

24 Desert driver means to travel around chaotic fight (8)

26 New tours including bandleader Puente make sense of the issue (4,2,3)

27 Ejects right fielder, coming in behind before the finale (5)

28 Vocalist swallows true brandy-based cocktail (7)

29 Polishes outside of Regina sanctuaries (7)

DOWN

1 Duller rule I’d retracted (7)

2 Contribute nothing about 50s artist (9)

3 Boat extremely valuable, and not as expensive in recession (6)

4 They’re left notes to keep about The Scarlet Letter (10)

5 Phone market in a report (4)

6 Leave out army member’s winter sportwear (3,5)

7 Gorse troubled meanies (5)

8 Mishandled head of family and, uh, ran (7)

13 Young socialites returned lipstick container in The Count of Monte Cristo (10)

16 Jewish religious council has dinner prepared (9)

17 Small, unresolved store payments (8)

18 Reads through applications (7)

20 Six hoaxes, online menaces (7)

21 Borrower lies on bed upside down (6)

23 Organized crime, thanks to Quebec (5)

25 In recital, backing quartet (4)