CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 It’s true: What butchers trim off contains

carbon (4)

3 Restless ump, roped in, lifted

weights (6,4)

9 A look at foot up in the air (5)

11 Spooner’s disallowed electrical

cable stuff in boxes (9)

12 Fortune describes principal skill of

yesteryear (4,3)

13 Faceless men shot door (5)

15 Southern civilization collects first of

primitive artworks (9)

17 Seat for more than one Republican,

until now (2,3)

19 Enjoys stories about kindergarten (5)

21 Dinner companion wearing fleece

wept (4,1,4)

23 Religious belief dies out by end of

millennium (5)

24 Country bumpkin’s beginning with

a pig in kiddie lit (7)

26 I fail in groundbreaking tournament

round (9)

27 Lowest-quality German sausage,

they say (5)

28 Snared bats repeatedly

(California’s fault) (3,7)

29 Vanguard element (4)

DOWN

1 Race around like an anarchist without making mistakes (10)

2 Angry male warning you’re about to

drive over train tracks (9)

4 Complete university fanatic outside front

of classroom (5)

5 Persist by way of intimidating (9)

6 Argues ocean floor keeps temperature

raised (7)

7 Scan back of chemistry set (5)

8 No empty desks? Silently indicates yes (4)

10 Choreographer finally got instrument

for a Marx brother (5)

14 Sadder Tory, tipsy, subjected to some

heat in a way (3,7)

16 Maori urns surprisingly presented

northern constellation (4,5)

18 Feminists initially go back, clutching

bit of English poetry (4,5)

20 Tense senator interrupted by petty

quarrel (7)

22 Luminous silver and blue (5)

23 Aunt from Kansas captured by Mafia

boss, infernal one (5)

24 Light type of wood a hunk lifted (5)

25 Adopts nine sisters of Greek myth,

first off (4)