8 A rich soil of sand and clay (4)
9 Noble-minded (10)
10 How long something is (6)
11 One who worships idols (8)
12 Ceremonial Maori war dance (4)
13 Gazettes or tabloids (10)
17 Scheme (4)
18 Shelf (5)
19 Jail room (4)
20 Offensiveness (10)
22 Seventy-one in Roman numerals (4)
23 Pull out (8)
27 Personal freedoms (6)
28 Intuition (10)
29 See (4)
Down
1 Fitted together tightly (10)
2 One moving to another country (8)
3 Manages incompetently (10)
4 Abominable snowman (4)
5 Margarine (4)
6 A protective embankment (6)
7 Broad (4)
14 A triangular shape (5)
15 Forcing (10)
16 Refreshing tranquility (10)
19 A Roman emperor (8)
21 Different ones (6)
24 Metrical unit of syllables (4)
25 Coarse file (4)
26 A legal instrument (4)