Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 22/05/2013

ACROSS

1 Wrongly predicts what had been written (8)

6 Go beyond and fail to notice (4,2)

9 Some perry expected or whisky (3)

10 Heinz with bag coming from north African port (8)

11 How one might destroy a grave? (6)

12 Group patriotically included (4)

13 Pundit Mac’s moving to place where people are in the buff (6,4)

15 Easy-going dwarf’s turn is fortunate (5-2-5)

18 Surplus with these other accounts (7,5)

21 Desert rain storm held back (10)

23 Dog for the most part to wander aimlessly (4)

24 Penny in new Indian or old Greek city (6)

26 In the past a conventional way, so to speak (8)

27 Most of the river contained nothing! (3)

28 Getting on but fall behind ex-convict (3,3)

29 Year Bill had night out at sea perhaps (8)

DOWN

2 Lady with heart of stone (6)

3 Happy at home with reliable ticker (2,4,5)

4 Old-fashioned pair (5)

5 Weak person, some say, with boring garment that needs no ironing (4-3)

6 Fairies manage to produce optical instrument (9)

7 Small coin removed from gas oven (3)

8 Not a bag Eskimo removed from polluted city! (3,5)

14 Going the opposite way with it accepting iron forgery (11)

16 Hounds getting on with making small parcels (9)

17 So long as food comes before spring (8)

19 Beached aviator? (7)

20 A diminutive lady on island (6)

22 Same again, interminably affluent style (5)

25 Chum has drink overturned (3)

Tuesday’s solution

Across: 1 Critical mass, 9 Panacea, 10 Brindle, 11 Stop, 12 Biddy, 13 LNER, 16 Manmade, 17 Shape up, 18 Scholar, 21 Wastrel, 23 Ramp, 24 Angel, 25 Want, 28 Scorpio, 29 Taunton, 30 Key signature.

Down: 2 Run down, 3 Taco, 4 Cyanide, 5 Libidos, 6 Arid, 7 So dense, 8 Metropolitan, 9 Postmistress, 14 Harls, 15 Marsh, 19 Hem,lock, 20 Rangoli, 21 Wheaten, 22 Realtor, 26 Spry, 27 Quite.