5  Lot of equipment on board ship (7)

 9  Goodbye to promotion of independent European Union (5)

10 Loses race and makes a meal of it (9)

11 Edits film embracing playground equipment (8,5)

13 Arab state arrests southern sycophants (3-3)

16 Start out tracking prisoner to make a difference (8)

18 Roughly six draws in a row - gaps need filling! (8)

19 Endless game goes from side to side (6)

24 Class teacher who might look after Victoria? (13)

26 Cheat appears in blue at Queens (9)

27 Experienced top division? (5)

28 Esoteric misfit ignores small social circle (7)

29 Secrecy of Bow Street wellbeing? (7)

 1  Norman, perhaps, in a state of chaos (7)

 2  The essence of Madeira is in sun-dried fruit (7)

 3  Vertical lead protects chimney in Edinburgh (5)

 4  Approve another inferior deputy transfer (6)

 5  Burgers, for example, that can be eaten during Ramadan? (4,4)

 6  Lacking mobility, I lean awkwardly on short stick (9)

 7  Nonsense to drop by unescorted (5)

 8  These might be the odds paradoxically (5)

12 Queries face coverings when not married (4)

14 Style shown by antelope with no tail (4)

15 Fan of old farm equipment? (9)

17 Family from Scunthorpe dig reedbed (8)

20 Colour for AA motel refurbishment (7)

21 Flexitime? (7)

22 Sleeps soundly? (6)

23 Nice money once flowed into football club (5)

24 Crazy to go back to the beginning of terrifying feat (5)

25 Knowledgeable about a Hertfordshire town (5)