the crosswords

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 21 Agents get sealed orders (9) 28 Captain Kidd perhaps lost his head in a rage (5) 29 Where Napoleon first saw the light (7) 10 Arms displayed in a hostile way? (6) 11 Situation a girl wanted (6) 12 Weighty stuff (8) 15 The rogue by mid-March is working in jail (8) 18 Anyone in it is out (6) 20 Let gin produce a thrill (6) 21 An opening act or passage (7) 22 Arrest follows from a quarrel (3,2) 23 Draining liquid food served with fish (9)

DOWN 02 Take sweetheart and run (5) 03 Simulated tears shed by Zulu leader (6) 04 Properly adjusted car lights give good illumination (3,5) 05 One of two standard Soviet tools (6) 06 Stop a girl working in a pub? (7) 07 Comic opera on the way in air transport (9) 11 They reduce the risk of accidents on flight (9) 13 The odds are that it’s almost lunchtime (3,2,3) 14 A hole that needs no peg in (7) 16 Nothing doing? (6) 17 A gunsmith will add it to his stock (6) 19 Yet such mail does not consist of such letters (5)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 01 Made as final resort (4-5) 08 Warning of danger (5) 09 Dissolution of marriage (7) 10 Worldwide (6) 11 Optical illusion (6) 12 Some person or thing detested (8) 15 Short-lived things (8) 18 Meal (6) 20 Unpretentious (6) 21 Economical (7) 22 Ridiculous proceedings (5) 23 Aggressively defiant (9)

DOWN 02 Plea of having been elsewhere (5) 03 Proverbially hard worker (6) 04 Enlargement (8) 05 Small village (6) 06 Punter (7) 07 Suspect trickery (5,1,3) 11 Temporary expedient (9) 13 Lawless (8) 14 A wild fancy (7) 16 Croquet or polo hammer (6) 17 Arduous (6) 19 A lustrous silken fabric (5)