Across:
1. I am involved in scheme to broadcast job initially for high-flyer (7 5)
8. Helped with race in Lincoln’s extended outskirts (7)
9. Hit back about charges for women (7)
11. The German starts getting mature sticky stuff first which is dependable (4 2 4)
12. Scrape off plaster (4)
14. Agricultural worker goes round the centre of Esher to get bird (8)
16. Work after small can of beer (6)
17. In Marseilles you start boarding vessel (3)
19. Able to follow old hat business (6)
21. Scrub old Roman’s pants (8)
24. Transmits songs (4)
25. Tear into court chambers earlier carrying Eliot’s note (10)
27. Returned to dugout wearing furs (7)
28. Gits are running at animal worker! (7)
29. Sentinel OK with my new city (6 6)
Down:
1. Professional character is solvent (7)
2. Start miner moving to send out again (10)
3. Poor man stalks trendy princess (8)
4. Embrace and fondle inappropriately! (6)
5. Bambi is upset, losing second foot! (4)
6. Paints family with one waterproof coat (7)
7. Current report wrongly put toad at edge of extinction! (4 2 2 4)
10. Usual excuses when my solo trades go wrong! (4 3 5)
13. Draw non-drinking artist in the process of doing something (10)
15. Stomach leaders of tribe uprooting maize (3)
18. Sign of reptile’s fizzog in Hackney (4 4)
20. Clots trim hob incorrectly! (7)
22. Tsar is tossing inside members of the nobility (7)
23. House made of grass is thoroughly soaked! (6)
26. Knocks over containers in a fit of pique! (4)
Solution:
==AIRLINEPILOT=
B=C=E=N=N=A=I==
ABETTED=FEMALES
N=T=R=I=O=B=S=A
GOODASGOLD=SKIM
U=N=N=E=D=A=I=E
PHEASANT=STINGO
T===M=TUB=T===L
OUTFIT=MOORLAND
D=H=T=S=A=A=R=S
AIRS=POSTSCRIPT
T=O=S=D=R=T=S=O
ERMINED=AGISTER
==B=I=E=C=O=O=Y
=MILTONKEYNES==
Name: Puzzle 459
Author: by Steve Townsend

Annos-Across:
1. AIR (= broadcast) LINE (= job) P (I) LOT (= scheme)
8. ABE (= Lincoln) TT (= race) E(xtende)D
9. FE [MAL (= LAM reversed)] ES (= charges)
11. GOO (= sticky stuff) DAS (= The German) G(etting) OLD (= mature)
12. Double Def
14. P [(Es)H(er)] EASANT (= Agricultural worker)
16. S(mall) TIN (= can) GO (= Work)
17. TU (= In Marseilles you) B(oarding)
19. OUT (= old hat) FIT (= Able)
21. MOORLAND (anag old Roman) (anagrind = pants)
24. Double Def
25. POS (= chambers) TS (= Eliot) C [RIP (= Tear)] T (= court)
27. ER (= Re reversed) MINED (= dugout)
28. AGISTER (anag Gits are) (anagrind = running)
29. MILTON KEYNES (anag Sentinel OK my) (anagrind = new)
Annos-Down:
1. ACE (= Professional) TONE (= character)
2. RETRANSMIT (anag Start miner) (anagrind = moving)
3. IN (= trendy) DI (= princess) GENT (= man)
4. ENFOLD (anag fondle) (anag = inappropriately)
5. IAMB [anag (-B)ambi] (anagrind = is upset)
6. OILS (= Paints) KIN (= family)
7. BANG (= report) UPTODAT (anag put toad) (anag = wrongly) E(xtinction)
10. SAME OLD STORY (anag my solo trades) (anagrind = go wrong)
13. A [TT (= non-drinking) RA (= artist)] CTION (the process of doing something)
15. T(ribe) U(prooting) M(aize)
18. Double Def [fizzog = face (Cockney rhyming slang)]
20. THROMBI (anag trim hob) (anagrind = incorrectly)
22. ARISTOS hidden in wordplay
23. Double Def
26. SNIT (TINS reversed)
Defs-Across:
1. high-flyer
8. Helped
9. women
11. dependable
12. Scrape off
12. plaster
14. bird
16. beer
17. vessel
19. business
21. Scrub
24. Transmits
24. songs
25. note
27. wearing furs
28. animal worker
29. city
Defs-Down:
1. solvent
2. send out again
3. Poor
4. Embrace
5. foot
6. one waterproof coat
7. Current
10. Usual excuses
13. Draw
15. Stomach
18. Sign of reptile
18. fizzog in Hackney
20. Clots
22. members of the nobility
23. House made of grass
23. thoroughly soaked
26. a fit of pique