Cryptic Crossword 1-28

Theme: None

Across:

1 Co-star, cos (lettuce), tar (salt), clown (def)

4 Appetite, ape (ham), containing (container), pet (sweet), stuffing (middle letters in) bits, relish (def)

10 Water polo, around (anagram of) a + pro + towel, sport (def)

11 Order, charge (def), border (boundary), after losing opener (delete 1st letter in) border

12 Rural, country (def), secretly (hidden), overturned (reverse scan), rest is fodder

13 Overmatch, implicit meta, raw (target), one way to get raw is reversal (over) of war (match)

14 Letters, notes (def), t (the), ER (king), in (insertion), lets (drags)

16 Bare, Reba (my kind of country singer, “my kind of country” was Reba McEntire’s album), cycling (letter circulation of) Reba, naked (def)

19 Egis, guard (def), E.g. (for example), is (goes down)

21 Caesura, ES (French art), set in (insertion), C (cold), aura (atmosphere), interspace (def)

24 Koala bear, wandering (anagram of) a + lake + boar, native to Australia (def)

25 Ratio, N (new), Al (gangster), denied (deletion of NAL from) rational (reasonable), rate (def)

26 Mufti, tatters (def), Mu (Greek character), horrible (anagram of) fit

27 Kinswoman, about (anagram of) ask + minnow, kissing cousin (def)

28 Orangery, or (gold), angry (bent out of shape), around (container), E (boat), rest is def, where mandarin is a type of orange

29 Inbred, in (playing), bread (money), said (homophone of) bread, which is bred, in one’s blood (def)

Down:

1 Cowardly, unheroic (def), cow (bully), hardly (rarely), lost his head (delete 1st letter in)

2 Saturate, logged (def), sat (Saturday), UR (you are), ate (annoyed)

3 April, girl (def), in (hidden), rest is fodder

5 Proverb, word (def), PR (priest), over (above), B (the bishop)

6 e-Commerce, E (English), MM (French men), engaged in (insertion), coerce (pressure), sell online (def)

7 Indite, piece together (def), another (anagram of) in (fashionable) + diet

8 Earthy, short (drop last letter in) hearth (home), cycling (letter circulation of) hearth - h, y (track)

9 Joyous, thankful (def), J (Japan), OO (owes), US (America), round the (container), Y (year)

15 Engraving, Eng. (Engineer), raving (fussing), line drawing (def)

17 Customer, patron (def), custom (fashion), ER (King)

18 Marooned, DD

20 Speaker, spear (gore), about (container), KE (50% of) keen, president (def)

21 Corona, wild (anagram of) Racoon, beer (def)

22 Akimbo, displaying (hidden), hands on the hip (def), rest is fodder

23 Raffia, palm (def), Doctor (anagram of) affair

25 Rowan, DD