Across

1 Bargemen losing ram travelling in desert (5)

4 Arrangement of schematic set of questions (9)

9 Little fine weather for festival (7)

10 Unreliable bloke harbouring deserter (7)

11 Church member with diverse scope and talent (11)

13 Old chief’s expression of surprise in Fife (3)

14 A harp I retuned for outcast (6)

15 One in abbey church? Very likely (8)

18 Area 51’s included in system of belief (8)

20 Saga that includes patroness of bell ringers (6)

23 Georgia Black’s gift of talking (3)

24 Rarely drops out in communication with the divine (5,6)

25 An involuntary response in front of palace (7)

26 Some think hornblende is in old liquid container ( 7)

28 Senior member of clergy’s larder Una ruined (5,4)

29 Trick European magistrate to accept Democrat (5)

Down

1 Modern health resort according to publication (9)

2 One smiling with old King and Queen going round hostelry (7)

3 Vehicle, warship turned up (3)

4 Leader of singing is able to split, after missing note (6)

5 That rice thrown, producing dramatic effect (8)

6 One heard round about the present time? (5,6)

7 Short introduction with half of item following anthem (7)

8 Book, comic a heretic includes (5)

12 Ardent Protestant leaving Alec distressed (11)

16 Shuffle back over hills (9)

17 Old dance, wild canter found around where in France? (8)

19 Not one bloater’s mistaken for crustacean (7)

21 Gland: second person’s on staff requiring one injected (7)

22 Allocate a second symbol (6)

23 I have half gram outside for benefactor (5)

27 Child’s young goat (3)

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