1. Pistol (7)
5. Accompany as an escort (7)
9. Playwright (9)
10. Give abilities to (5)
11. Comprise (7)
12. A small one-storied house (7)
13. Deliveries (9)
15. An expensive sailing ship (5)
17. Make improvements to (5)
19. Go off (9)
22. Batted by women (7)
25. Flee (with something) (7)
26. Genus of hemlock spruce (5)
27. Taken from the mane or tail of a horse (9)
28. Everlasting (7)
29. Methods, schemes, procedures (7)
Down
1. Persuades sensually (7)
2. Waste water leaves through this (9)
3. Reversion (7)
4. Dampened (9)
5. Sword (5)
6. Noiselessly (7)
7. 2nd most populous country (5)
8. Chemical (7)
14. A yellowwood tree with aromatic leaves (9)
16. Belonging to a company (9)
17. A daughter of Agamemnon (Greek mythology) (7)
18. Haulage (7)
20. Hurries (7)
21. Abides (7)
23. Elicit (5)
24. Laughs (5)