This is the highly anticipated Cryptic Crossword No 30,103, featuring a fresh collection of carefully crafted clues to challenge enthusiasts. Test your wits with these tantalising puzzles designed to keep you pondering.
Across
1 Enthusiast for wines, someone who crawls (7)
5 Stirring the mix: a hot pot, repeated thrice (7)
10 Certainly not an old fragrance product! (4)
11 Hip financiers break a nut open (10)
12 Completed, dressed up using item 14? (6)
13 Create room, inside undies, for rear – and dangling parts (8)
14 Potential opium, kid secreted in a nation (9)
16 Bloom remnants bask in daylight hours (5)
17 Entrapped in Belfast, an occupied Irishman (5)
19 Gear up to venture west, taking a new route? (5-4)
23 Not catching the interest of a vinophile from Stellenbosch country (8)
24 Sugar coating from cities such as Ouagadougou and Giza, enclosing an empty net (6)
26, 29 Spray item 14 around hefting device, a strong man? No elitism here, purchase it! (10,7)
27, 8 Item 14, mixed with a bold scent, ready to be splattered widely (4,7)
28 Bearing a querying pose, akin to Britney Spears, for churchgoers? (7)
29 Refer to 26 across
Down
2 Enchanting element, within a second, disrupts magical figure’s upward path (7)
3 Approve openly: signal for proceed (3-2)
4 Royal seemingly luxuriating in a citrus bubble bath? (7)
6 Top cover giving way, roof detaching (6)
7 Brief verse on a ranked member from entry 14 (3,6)
8 Refer to 27 Across
9 Match teams advancing to Pakistan, chat, perhaps, correlates to this (13)
15 Ominous server skill, expressing visible discomfort (9)
18 Settle down, shortly advancing over a novel river (7)
20 Ancient unmoved, conserve arrangement (7)
21 Culinary tool: it prompted me to collect the finale of fondant! (7)
22 Segment observed through divergent considerations (6)
25 Of Asian descent, a subset residing in a European nation (5)
Reporting based on coverage first published by theguardian.com.