Times Cryptic #26631

2017-01-25

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Across

1a

British citizen, male, meeting a French one in prison (9)

9a

Husband leaves tipcheeky to chip in (7)

10a

A toolmaker may produce one, setting one's teeth on edge (7)

11a

Setter scoffing game and sloppy food (5)

12a

Fuss concerning Wexford's porridge? (9)

13a

Companion given drink in a posh country house (7)

15a

Radical's sidekick, rebel, finally (5)

17a

Bore that's possibly on the square? (5)

18a

Breakwater that's blackish, do we infer? (5)

19a

Something played by drummer backing a large club? (5)

20a

No good dividing gold, renewing his suffering! (7)

23a

I'm choosing higher education, finally dressed in regulation gear? (9)

25a

Perfunctory worker born in base (5)

27a

First couple in Channel port keeping quarters for so long (7)

28a

Ignoble knight, one pinching judge's dog (7)

29a

Stimulant a medic, female, left at home (9)

Down

1d

Gloomy seaman protected by St Thomas, perhaps (6)

2d

Carping Italian quietly engaged in illegal activity (3-7)

3d

Disturbance at college over chap and a girl (8)

4d

Prelude written in airport niftily when going north (5)

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5d

Holding up titled man, we hear, youngster outside Lima hot spot (9)

6d

Mark of disgrace upset American soldiers? About time (6)

7d

African animal park reportedly lacking ungulates to begin with (4)

8d

Navigational aid hotel employee talked of (4,4)

14d

Old vehicle going over river outside city boundaries (10)

16d

Country head unrivalled at first in Italian translation (9)

17d

Harangue assistant turning up just before race (8)

18d

Early 17th-century woman astride a horse (8)

21d

Plan home care for(6)

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22d

border woman at centre of a row (6)

24d

Sustain popular copper on run (5)

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26d

Mistake made by senior cleric giving up work (4)