Weekly puzzle 2 – solution – Times for The Times

Apologies to non-British solvers for some local culture, especially boradcaster Brian Redhead.

Across
1	CUM=with,BRIAN=Redhead perhaps
5	USENET – double def – to troll is to send provocative messages on discussion forums, and to fish by trailing a baited line behind a boat – so “use net” is the alternative
9	(see 25D)
11	(m)UTTER – M=Mike from radio alphabet
12	EYE=round hole,IN,G=middle of baGel
13	C(ALL,UP=at univ.)ON
15	THREE-LINE WHIP – def and cryptic def comparing it to a cat o’nine tails
18	HEAD=capital,QUARTERED=divided – London being the HQ for many companies
22	SLAPS=punches,HOT=heated
23	BAR=watering hole,SAC(k)=dry (white) wine
26	LASS=girl,O=ring
27	ENAC=rev. of cane=”beating rod”,T.(MEN)T.
28	MA,LADY
29	JOYRIDER = (I do jerry)*

Down
1	CONFETTI – CD with match=wedding
2	MINCE – referring to anagrams as ‘mincing’ words
3	RETINUE – rev. of UNIT = some equipment, in R.E.,(mak)E
4	A.V. = Bible (Authorised Version), ID = papers
6	S(QUEL(l))CH.
7	NOTEPAPER = (tape prone)*
8	TI=”Thai”,RING=group
10	SPACE BAR – CD alluding to Douglas Adams’s Restaurant at the End of the Universe
14	MISQUOTE = “Miss, quote”
16	RE(HE)ARS,A,L
17	EDUCATOR – DUCAT in rev. or ROE=”youngest members of school”
19	A,B,S,CON,D
20	TRAC=”track”,TOR
21	A,S(Y)LUM
24	STEED – 2 defs, one for John Steed from 1960s TV show ‘The Avengers’. (Borrowing a phrase from Hitchhiker, getting that kind of noise out of a Stylophone is, of course, impossible.)
25, 9	CAT O’ NINE TAILS = (actions in tale)*

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