Word whirl

A CROSSWORD TO PUT YOUR MIND TO.

Across

1 The work from which comes “The 29s that 21 across in the 8, tra-la!” (6)

4 Raises, either literally or in stature (8)

10 Device you might use to watch Goldfinger (which includes a laser!) (3,6)

11 More healthy (from a term often used with ‘hearty’) (5)

12 What the power station supplying 16 6s should not be! (4-5)

13 A chicken – wearing a hat, perhaps? (5)

14 Country home to eight of the world’s ten tallest peaks (5)

15 The upper canines are something extremely valuable (8)

19 An 23 22 name for water (as drunk by the First Lady, perhaps?) (5,3)

21 Surname of Leopold in James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Leo in Mel Brooks’s The Producers (5)

23 Change (sounds like it could be found in a church?) (5)

25 Yowl, make a harsh noise (9)

26 The world’s most populous democracy (5)

27 In an extremely harmful manner (9)

28 Cairo 22? (8)

29 Reach a peak; a 21; something that moves as a liquid (6)

Down

1 Laughter is said to be the best (doctors may disagree) (8)

2 As David Balfour was in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel (9)

3 Filled with or evoking sadness (7)

5 Shocking, sensational, garish (5)

6 A train, plane or automobile – or canoe, bicycle, sleigh, carriage... (7)

7 A 8 29 may be lit up (anag.) (5)

8 A source of water; a metal coil; to surprise someone with unexpected news (6)

9 A system of 23 22 1 down practiced in 26 and 14 (8)

16 Tense; highly charged (8)

17 Cutting implement requiring a pair of people to operate (3-3,3)

18 Someone who uses something (8)

20 Caustic, corrosive – also means serving to fix a dye (7)

21 A bird like Jill Tomlinson’s ‘Plop’, who was afraid of the dark (4,3)

22 Indigenous or inborn; he was somewhat controversially (for 1878) returned by Thomas Hardy (6)

24 “____ is God’s gift, that’s why it’s called the present” (attributed to Joan Rivers) (5)

25 Approximately, especially of a date (5)