Monday 4 May

Across

1 Wife desires charming women … (7) 5 … valour is boring her – ordinary and primarily ‘macho’ (7) 10 E-copy (4) 11 Tale of servitude recalled in reels (10) 12 One in five heading to Open are seeds (6) 13 Remain on the right side of suspicious cook – porky but harmless? (5,3) 14 Way to find a giant, live, and chat about man’s missing head? (9) 16 Censors essentially blue tale (5) 17 Barnaby ousts Romeo and takes Juliet – he’s a trier! (5) 19 INXS provided Yates’s first shoot up (9) 23 Barbarian, turning good guy, with trimmed locks – he’s chasing foxy type? (8) 24 Move to try and cover King’s naked glee after fling (6) 26 Ventures boundless flair inspired by coaches (10) 27 Once partner is following, beginning to introduce glimpse of billy goat (4) 28 One holding up the line returning skins again? (7) 29 Trailers way back, after about 5½ days travelling west (7)

Down

2 Add in what I did here, as stated (7) 3 Summit’s within Worcester, centrally, elevated (5) 4 Use charm to control tendency to avoid pressure (7) 6 Barrier dropped to protect pupil (6) 7 Toast peer performing in musical dramas (9) 8 Rise up, capturing aged warrior (7) 9 White dominance troubling viewers (4,9) 15 Dark approaching, tenses, one male, alone at the end (5-4) 18 Odd you twice caught group of students drawn in by unframed Dali (7) 20 Overlooked, start off angry, swear endlessly inside (7) 21 Most rewarding transposing soprano flute line (7) 22 This setter’s regularly upset with contrary editor’s delay (6) 25 Catch spots orally (5)