I finally tried my hand at a cryptic crossword. I don't really have any experience with cryptic crosswords, or crosswords for that matter so I probably broke like 300 rules.
For example, 17 down is actually misspelled (I left out the third letter in the seven letter answer.)
Anyway, I spent a lot of time on this so I hope whoever solves it in like three seconds has some fun.
Also, any tips/feedback would be greatly appreciated.
ACROSS
1 Heads up! Stay undercover, Sherlock Holmes, investigator. (5)
5 Quickly, get in as appointed (4)
8 Forever a mixed one (3)
9 All around alabama, post soldiers visit parks (5)
11 Confused about great dog's head (4)
13 Before him in hell (3)
14 Associate lines through Africa without options? (6)
16 Again, they almost quarrel in an Arabic note from behind (4,5) (this is by far the most badly written clue)
18 Deserted and upset men invade (4)
19 Begins a simple preposition (2)
22 A stray dog bites up a man until he's cut (4)
24 Character carrying extra items (5)
25 Not even in disdain, everyone is normal (4)
26 Good, troubled eyes are bursting with drops (6)
28 Bad, but it could not rip! (4)
29 Herds away sis from water (5)
DOWN
1 A terribly cut off cut off (5)
2 A slangy merchant and a Southern girl (5)
3 Half of em start, half soil (3)
4 Almost whole, it questions unity (9)
6 Hear a sharp trim (5)
7 A sheet of endless judges (4)
10 Drink until you're nearly deathly (3)
11 Twins in Australian advertisements (4)
12 Confusing, nearly-new data rises (2,4)
14 A headless armed sally (4)
17 More precipitation above mountains (7) (spelled wrong in the puzzle, missing the third letter)
20 Prophets tower of hearsay (5)
21 Do th' at again after the boob (1,3)
22 Hydrogen rises up epically (4)
23 Flying object falls: it's wood (4)
24 Apparently looking underwater (3)
27 In conjunction with itself, doubly mediocre (2)