Guardian Cryptic #27777

2019-03-25

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Across

1a

Earl to mark device for use (6)

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4a

Settlement is rejected in warehouse (7)

9a

Make good porridge together (2,3,4)

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10a

Backer provides a new stage, after reflection (5)

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11a

Problem of knotted ropes (5)

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12a

Holy man from a Caribbean island (9)

13a

See about wrong move with precision (7)

15a

Chance controlled Benedictine monk (6)

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17a

Alien used criminal in studies (6)

19a

Sinatra upset technician (7)

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22a

Married man who later rued arrangement (9)

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24a

Religious leader's endless chatter (5)

26a

Means of transport for Home Counties judoka (5)

27a

Briefcase left with page (9)

28a

Joiner takes money up front quite slowly (7)

29a

Look round very fast (6)

Down

1d

Formerly stout model (7)

2d

Copper gets tons of conspiracies (5)

3d

Ended trade organisation that's made too much of (9)

4d

Visionary head of department gets rotary tool (7)

5d

Left in agony? That's evident! (5)

6d

Weaken a club with debts? That's wise? (9)

7d

Claws back pounds, advanced in huge quantities (6)

8d

Drunken groom consumed a lot of litres (6)

14d

Shocked when a good man's ’arrassed (9)

16d

Capture supporting position? That's the bottom line (3,6)

18d

Waste material that is in beastly disorder (7)

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19d

Visual display of yellow in the atmosphere (6)

20d

Disgusting row about old man (7)

21d

Aversion is new treatment in Alcoholics Anonymous (6)

23d

Joint's connective tissue died away (5)

25d

Farm equipment used to get booze into Britain (5)