Double Crossword
1 Tactful old ladies carry the ambassador’s correspondence (10,4) 10 Mediterranean horse elixir (4,7) 11 First lady to be at no time naked (3) 12 Growth on the verges of Carnaby Street (4) 13 Care-worn and charming to put in the picture again (10) 15 See red, an angry response to one’s lover (8) 16 Delivery vehicles of last resort (6) 19 Take note of article and start to simmer (6) 20 Retiring or extroverted? (8) 23 Shaking the half-heartedly reflected with many arrows (3,7) 25 Covered walk with wild oats (4) 27 Tart was oddly poised (3) 28 Clumsily fitting ten in galley (11) 29 Finished with chip being legally sold in a pharmacy (4,3,7) 2 Never rise unsteadily when available for immediate use (2,7) 3 Told unions about wild cat (4) 4 Puts off the scent that damsel is using (8) 5 Leader of the Third Reich passed out many times (6) 6 Turned up on the borders of Gaul, throwing off disguise (10) 7 Ex-Soviet contribution to Zaire’s revolution (5) 8 Follows into the lushest entanglements? (7) 9 Gives an impression of childhood punishment (6) 14 Quotient he divided between ourselves (2,3,5) 17 Style or title as philosopher (9) 18 Peruse ramblings and leave the unconscious part of the mind (8) 19 Fake excreta is cleaner (7) 21 Happy years after losing heart to a woman (6) 22 Some beef about beery embrace for the faint-hearted (3,3) 24 Rest, before the Middle Ages, with a feudal relationship (5) 26 Touch up new crown on piece (4) 1 Foolish pursuit of the unattainable (4,5,5) 10 Newlywed on a holiday (11) 11 Small circular shape (3) 12 Feeble (4) 13 Ten-sided figure (10) 15 Antipathies (8) 16 Glib, superficial (6) 19 Driven insane (6) 20 Device for reducing a firearm’s report (8) 23 Fair and square (2,3,5) 25 Leap (4) 27 Neighbour of Canada and Mexico (1,1,1) 28 The working class (11) 29 Island at the southern tip of South America (6,3,5) Across: - 1 Laughing stock. 10 Numerical. 11 Amble. 12 Army. 13 Inconstant. 15 Extremes. 16 Nipple. 19 Pariah. 20 Go-getter. 23 Emblazoned. 25 Wilt. 27 E coli. 28 Protestor. 29 Thunderstruck. 2 Arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and Greece (6,3) 3 Periods of 24 hours (4) 4 Device recording the distance a vehicle travels (8) 5 Sentence structure (6) 6 Ties in, equates (10) 7 Relative of the birch (5) 8 Informal alliance (7) 9 Melted (6) 14 One who keeps account of workers’ hours (10) 17 Together with, as well as (9) 18 Of the stars (8) 19 Game played with balls, hoops and mallets (7) 21 Good name, esteem (6) 22 Register, log (6) 24 Vestige, relic (5) 26 Azerbaijani capital (4) Down: - 2 Alma mater. 3 Gory. 4 Incensed. 5 Gallop. 6 Transfixed. 7 Cobra. 8 Unlace. 9 Centre. 14 Relaxation. 17 Patriotic. 18 Covetous. 19 Pieces. 21 Return. 22 Toupee. 24 Broth. 26 Leer.