Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 23/08/2014
Across
1 Attack eccentric using plastic! (6,4)
9 One sergeant-major has distinctive theory (3)
10 Splendid way to travel! (5-5)
11 Calling twice for toy (2-2)
12 Held inquiries without one about having given up (12)
15 Air display (6)
17 Set the table (8)
18 Trade, one might be asked to mind one’s own (8)
20 Inside canteen, some pour from one container into another (6)
21 Gone for good entering sewerage pipe (4,3,5)
24 Liftman (4)
26 Latest fashion in France (7,3)
27 European firm has green prefix (3)
28 Surprisingly Lydia loses article in a lazy way (4)
29 Imaginary place where Alice might have speculated (10)
DOWN
2 Successor in the grips of the Irish (4)
3 Booking’s qualified approval (11
4 Do better taking 90 fish out (5)
5 Not in favour of kitchen range this month (7)
6 Upset brutes did become upset (9)
7 Lady right to leave one of the forces (3)
8 Patient’s gassy enclosure (6,4)
13 Person’s own limit of willpower (4-7)
14 Old country in atlas bound to change (10)
16 I heard gloom could be cosmetic (9)
19 Not happy even with this household implement (7)
22 Nearly everybody I have in being (5)
23 Almost new part of fibre diet (4)
25 Essential opener (3)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
DROUKIT~HOSTILE
E~V~R~H~A~U~N~A
PREDATE~VINEGAR
I~R~F~G~E~~~R~L
CAFETERIA~CRONE
T~E~~~A~C~O~W~S
SODOM~TALLPINES
~~~~I~E~O~E~~~~
FACELIFTS~DORMS
A~E~K~U~E~~~I~E
TODAY~LASTNIGHT
I~I~~~D~H~I~O~T
GALETTE~ACCRUAL
U~L~O~A~V~H~R~E
ENACTED~EMERSED
~~MIDDLECOURSE~
G~E~R~U~I~N~W~~
RONDO~SINGALONG
A~A~L~H~D~B~O~E
TOGGLE~BEDLINEN
E~E~E~A~R~E~~~E
FORERUNNER~TSAR
U~I~Y~T~L~H~L~A
LEER~WALLTOWALL
N~~~P~G~A~U~U~S
ESCARGOT~KNIGHT
S~A~O~N~A~D~H~O
SHRINKING~DETER
~~O~T~S~I~O~E~E
~FLOORMANAGER~~