DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Salts away a good man with his remains (7)

5 Brace is made to put down (7)

10 Predator found in Windsor Castle (4)

11 Cockneys repair sea vessels (4,6)

12 Undecided on what’s being circulated (2,3,3)

13 Duty is one uncertainty amid a raft of possibilities (6)

14 Escape police custody in an unexpected turn of events (4,4,3,4)

17 Diaphanous mist nears bewildered mother or father (15)

21 Vacate position with caution (6)

23 Ready to mate when ready to sell? (2,6)

25 Resisting poor actor from the palace (10)

26 Low tide uncovered pineapples (4)

27 Second chance for justice in trailer accident (7)

28 Cold serving eaten in front of new restaurant (7)

DOWN

2 Rocky outcrop atop bisected town or city (7)

3 Flickered past eight wires (9)

4 Medical treatment for a slimmer Serene Majesty (5)

6 Washes top out in clothing plant (9)

7 Provision for drier conditions (5)

8 Blackhead producing fluid around never-ending infection (4,3)

9 Religious community put cinders on broken arm (6)

15 Ruin air at turns in imaginary land (9)

16 Grab at men creating an iron attraction? (3,6)

18 Long time bound for extinction (7)

19 No votes reported in stable voices (6)

20 Newborn sees light at the end of the cradle (7)

22 Somehow reeks of a glacial deposit (5)

24 Step up as business trainee (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 At a very high level (3-4)

5 Source of atomic power (7)

10 Famous English public school (4)

11 Animal with a backbone (10)

12 Indian tribe or the capital of Wyoming (8)

13 Gun or knife (6)

14 Inexperienced, naive (15)

17 Fried leftovers (6,3,6)

21 Nepali soldier in the British army (6)

23 Very hot day (8)

25 Increase in value (10)

26 Rich soil (4)

27 Islands north of Scotland (7)

28 Twisted, weather-beaten (7)

DOWN

2 Galley (7)

3 Fill with holes or cavities (9)

4 Donated (5)

6 Alpine flower (9)

7 Papal administration (5)

8 Result (7)

9 Underpants (6)

15 Pecking order (9)

16 Like an uncle (9)

18 Wrongful supplanter of authority (7)

19 Capital of the Bahamas (6)

20 Standard, par (7)

22 Holy book of Islam (5)

24 Sea (5)