Double Crossword
1 One steeling oneself as broadcaster holds script in front of screen (5,9) 10 Detract from police apology for stripping Asian traveller (5,4) 11 Wakes swarm - that’s out of line! (5) 12 Centre of canula slipped into bone (4) 13 Die on litter, allowing media to enter the dumps (10) 16 Leap pipework in an American’s idea of perfect order (5,3) 17 About to cry, missing the first bit of ticking-off (6) 20 Cretan disaster stunned state (6) 21 Coat of monarch buried deep inside the planet (8) 23 Dared break latches in Rasta style (10) 24 Release without charge (4) 26 Rotten health at heart, and liver and tongue! (5) 28 Flag email from stranger (9) 29 To torment and oppress, make money-spinner do otherwise (4,2,4,4) 2 For wan pace, read novel like this one! (3,3,5) 3 Piece of jumper on the back of the neck (4) 4 It’s not a commotion heard when trapped in the chalet? (6,2) 5 A poet embraced love on the bus? (6) 6 Listens behind rundown salon for usurers (4,6) 7 Cow’s tail in order from Chinese cooking pot (3) 8 Growing raw on tree (5) 9 Album moving a nutcase, that’s able to move (8) 14 Little one ran my organisation like a regular soldier (11) 15 Extremely energetic bounder jumped in bottomless pillow slip (10) 18 Spread pork pies around the traps, sat up and paid attention (8) 19 Support party, or just the rump of it? (8) 22 Paul Hewson on the smell of a great ape (6) 23 Languish after love enters decline (5) 25 Short proclamation from a normally reticent one (4) 27 Price paid for splitting antenna (3) 1 Disconcert, throw into confusion (14) 10 Canteen (9) 11 Furry aquatic mammal (5) 12 Manure (4) 13 Alteration (10) 16 Sweet made of ground almonds and egg whites (8) 17 Do without (6) 20 Fleet of warships (6) 21 Steadfast (8) 23 Munificence, largesse (10) 24 Ukrainian capital (4) 26 More than sufficient (5) 28 Irritation (9) 29 Applying in all cases (6-3-5) Across: - 1 Around-the-clock. 9 Album. 10 Grievance. 11 Trajectoy. 13 Stir. 15 Defile. 15 Unworthy. 18 Filament. 19 Impend. 21 Near. 22 Hibernated. 25 Epitomise. 26 Ideal. 28 Unintelligible. 2 Foot soldier (11) 3 Shelter for doves (4) 4 Line joining the poles at right angles to the equator (8) 5 Impenetrable to light (6) 6 Not conventional (10) 7 Division of a play (3) 8 Wading bird similar to a heron (5) 9 The world of learning (8) 14 Hangman (11) 15 Uninhabited and uncultivated land (10) 18 General summary (8) 19 Prison term (8) 22 Sidelong, oblique (6) 23 Tropical fruit with yellow skin and pink pulp (5) 25 Beginner, novice (4) 27 Accepted standard (3) Down: - 1 Adapt. 2 Orb. 3 Nom de plume. 4 Tights. 5 Emigrant. 6 Lava. 7 Constituent. 8 Betrayed. 12 Affiliation. 14 Commanding. 15 Defender. 17 Incisive. 20 Cereal. 23 Delve. 24 Soon. 27 Ebb.