#37
Rupert Morrish

Some context for Northern hemisphere solvers:
10A: David Astle is an Australian TV personality. He sets the Friday cryptic in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald under the byline "DA". .

13A: Christopher Luxon is the current leader of the opposition in New Zealand, and a former CEO of Air New Zealand. 
 


Across
  •  1  Doing as one is told due to US posturing (7)

  •  5  Crippling debt follows setback in proving ground (4,3)

  •  9  Get behind Mum, back to front (5)

  • 10 Lunatic reviled DA cryptic (9)

  • 11 Disturbed the French student dancing outside (9)

  • 12 Sweet truck changes direction twice (5)

  • 13 "Businessmen always lie" describes leaders like Luxon (4)

  • 15 As a class, peers mature after 25 (8)

  • 18 Critic about to see Queen (8)

  • 19 Wet outside on Sunday; we drive around stores (4)

  • 22 Term one a disaster, send money (5)

  • 24 Missing six pack once consumed (4,5)

  • 26 Look at him ruining the party! Spooner asks why they can't see it in Westminster (3-6)

  • 27 Beastly one with horn? (5)

  • 28 Dr. Dee is devilishly inhabited (7)

  • 29 Actively involved with husband & child (5-2)

  • Down
  •  1  Old connection laid by setter (4-2)

  •  2  Sorry, I've run out of alternatives to express it differently (9)

  •  3  Start rewriting notes (5)

  •  4  Dad's bowel irritated by pommel (9)

  •  5  Exhausted from bumpy ride with former model (5)

  •  6  Pushed away fake id in Leeds (9)

  •  7  Cut corners? Believe that is going wrong. (5)

  •  8  Rips up carpet? Sadly, the end is ruined (6)

  • 14 Made fires at the beach - did two for fun (9)

  • 16 Some magnets are rather dirty (4,5)

  • 17 Take to the park where Ikea glows mysteriously (2,7)

  • 20 Right one moves without maps (6)

  • 21 Timber 25, perhaps 100, in tony, old-fashioned neighbourhood (6)

  • 23 Deliberately uses wrong names (5)

  • 24 Having two feet made tender with internal exercises (5)

  • 25 Nobleman is working (after some pressure) (5)

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