THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Boring tool (5)

4 Finish (6,3)

9 French heroine (4,2,3) 10 Memorise (5)

11 Tacked (6)

12 Drink without milk (5,3) 14 Optical device (9)

15 Attractive (5)

17 Broom (5)

19 Sit in judgement (9)

22 Careless (8)

24 Make beloved (6)

26 27 Tally Vegetable (5) (9)

28 Economic

decline (9)

29 Middle East country (5)

Down

1 Supplement (7)

2 Flower (9)

3 Building

specialists (7)

4 Chime (4)

5 Contest between

neighbours (5,5) 6 Joined (7)

7 Abstract design (2,3) 8 Dream (7)

13 Venomous

reptile (5,5)

16 Carrion feeder (9)

17 Large, swift-running

bird (7)

18 Region of America (7) 20 Terms of office (7)

21 Huge land mass (7) 23 Projectile (5)

25 Raced (4)