Double Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Record creeps in a squabble over differences (13) 10 Renews as a novel form of consciousness (9) 11 Animals raised as ingredients for soup (5) 12 Blazing with a fashionista’s original rage (5) 13 Omit it in a mocking parody (9) 14 Interest listeners that are visibly moved (2,5) 16 Gem dealer tried to conceal bottom edge (7) 18 Rake in set pieces of the grave (7) 21 Vegetable that fool dunked in sparkling wine (7) 23 Absent air affected non-imbiber (9) 24 Stand up, to bash head and foam at the mouth (5) 25 Took steps to train cadet (5) 26 Urge to escape sole kind of ticklishness? (5,4) 27 Detached and right-angled above board (4,3,6)
DOWN
2 Animate central point of a poet (7) 3 Erect sections of Minoan homeland (5) 4 Beseeming to 9-down and butcher the opposition (7) 5 Patronage is up, stirring heart of champion (7) 6 Hand clappers and actors ten, as directed (9) 7 Excited reaction, ignoring conclusion of sexual literature (7) 8 Periodical in powder room (8) 9 Requesting focus in film (4) 15 Cross and queen held up stout king (9) 17 Face radical sect in vernacular forms (8) 19 Egyptologist’s key or upwardly mobile state (7) 20 Nonet is torn apart by stress (7) 21 Made motorcar a case for skirting capital (7) 22 Lay on horse’s back during fresh trauma (7) 23 A girl lacked finish, sad to say (4) 24 Hound’s sound middle ground in American backwater (5)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Austere, without ornamentation (13) 10 Pigment, dye (9) 11 Ludicrous or grotesque act (5) 12 Friendship (5) 13 US President, elected four times (9) 14 Branch of science dealing with matter and energy (7) 16 Fibrous protein in hair and nails (7) 18 Gives, contributes (7) 21 Hired hand on a cattle ranch (7) 23 Rat-like marsupial (9) 24 Number system with a base eight (5) 25 Last letter of the Greek alphabet (5) 26 Ceramic ware (9) 27 One who fails short of potential (13)
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2 Render invalid (7) 3 Shy, unassertive (5) 4 Political refugees (7) 5 Business that requires much travelling or walking (7) 6 Figure used to protect crops from birds (9) 7 Implore (7) 8 Disposed of as junk (8) 9 Jazz singing without words (4) 15 Complicated, involved (9) 17 Goading, taunting (8) 19 Hard-wearing buff fabric (7) 20 Salad ingredient (7) 21 Inflammation of nasal mucous membranes (7) 22 Go faster than (7) 23 Tome, volume (4) 24 Fat (5)