Times Cryptic #27993

2021-06-02

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Across

1a

Servant's goodbye coming with retirement finally (5)

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4a

Poet taking time around end of autumn to find wild animal's domain (4,5)

9a

Leaving the City areait's stifling outside (9)

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10a

London giant's journey featured in periodical (5)

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11a

Something attractive about holy person? (6)

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12a

It's all right to interrupt one funny person or another (8)

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14a

Religiously committed school entertaining archdeacon with a set of holy books (10)

16a

Good wood is cut (4)

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19a

Session spanning winter months (4)

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20a

Running late, trains can pose a problem? (10)

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22a

Female performance promises to be divisive (8)

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23a

What's crazy in a French femaleand maybe divine? (6)

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26a

Fare to get across lake or swamp (5)

27a

Barge in season, heading off south east, beyond river (9)

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28a

Spooner's sentimentality, something sweet providing inducement (4,5)

29a

Exhausted author lying in street (5)

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Down

1d

Devious devil, one sort of agent briefly turning to wit (9)

2d

Wants to be sluggish, first to last (5)

3d

Tree in delta below river (8)

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4d

Hotel dealt with trouble, bringing acclaim (4)

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5d

Get men into reorganising plant (10)

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6d

A politician in socialist hue rushed around violently (6)

7d

Drinks late on? They won't help you keep a cool head then (9)

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8d

Wholehearted bore needing an audience (5)

13d

Said annual travelling around should be in part of Spain (10)

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15d

Savagetime to oust one, right? (9)

17d

Food in France perhaps a mother's cooked, full of energy (9)

18d

Plain folk from the south irked, note, with everyone (8)

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21d

Is daughter given order to follow women's good sense? (6)

22d

Garbage left abandoned staff finally collected in interval (5)

24d

Residence of a German man of law (5)

25d

Maybe lost dog has run away for stick (4)