Chambers July 09
by Peebles

(all words / phrases are contained in The Chambers Dictionary and our online Crossword Solver)

Across

1Adopt strange pose to gain employment (7)
5A biro's varying pressure line (6)
9See 7 Down
10Not fit to put on bare lawn (EU amendment) (10)
12Song won't change a rather basic settlement (10)
13Cover for wound from southern cape seaman (4)
14/23Emblazoned fancily around top of running award no.3? (6,5)
16Is an investigator rough on egoist? (4,4)
18Something made after frenetic do (8)
20Almost take legal action against a guy? Sweet! (6)
22Seafood, not over-good, is a swindle (4)
24Loud quality of shrines floating in nitrogen, say (10)
26Snake's unusual defence: a brief right and left (3-2-5)
27Used by David Lean but unemployed (4)
28Ginger possibly grabs live mesh (6)
29It restricts the leisure activity of the very small drama writer (7)

Down

2Buster's a real dish (7)
3Order guns to be placed round island (9)
4Suggestive of, for example, holding copper up (5)
6/25It's resistant to corrosion, giving Mark not so much determination (9,5)
7/9Cheap wedding ring for the players? (5,4)
8Go on about Old Testament character having a dependency (7)
11Almost worn out, right battered, it might be used by the forger (7,4)
15Head of empire cleaving rocks, archaically crusader-like (9)
17Skill of one untying knotting around tip of tie (9)
19Disease of carbon-deficient chirpy things (7)
21Commitment? Do this crossword over again! (7)
23See 14 Across
25See 6


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