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