DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Look after group mentality (4-3)

5 Drink twice as much in a loincloth (3-3)

9 Spice up honey store and clean the mount (9) 10 Where’s a long reflection shortened in a beam of light (5)

11 Irish leaders encircled divided centre of a British tribe (5)

12 Astrologer’s plan linked formality with skill (4,5)

13 Die off before court’s orders (6)

14 Baton was twirled in the country (8)

17 Runner smooths the surface of garden tool (4,4) 19 Mother Eve’s son returning as madman (6)

23 Friend with a supply of food that’s quite appetising (9)

25 Do uterine contractions become peripheral? (5) 26 Take to the streets, abandoning beer hall at last (5)

27 Book keeper given balance by rainstorm (9) 28 Water-logged planet with extreme humidity (6) 29 Paddler brandished rake to limit chatter (7)

DOWN

1 Speaker limited chain letters to party organisation (7) 2 Number wearing out European (9)

3 Designer of piggery and tip (7)

4 Aims to adapt Chinese philosophy (6)

5 Dog from scientific establishment on the right revolutionary road (8)

6 Walks around the French royal houses (7)

7 One eats out in a state of confusion (2,3)

8 Flower of legume conceals decay (6)

15 Slow to understand the breadth of computer memory? (1,3,5)

16 Bet garbage was swallowed by parrot with distended stomach (3-5) 17 Fine for each one entering coach in an uppity manner (6) 18 Puts an end to pioneers (7) 20 Devastated layman to admit love was an exception (7)

21 Angle to hold first of offenders for court official (7) 22 Runner may smell when body odour is trapped inside (6)

24 International leader lands in ably managed country (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Branch of mathematics (7) 5 Fail to follow suit (6) 9 Vanguard (9)

10 Woman’s head covering (5)

11 Rocky Mountain state (5) 12 Celebrity’s signature (9) 13 Sesame paste (6)

14 The Word of God (4,4) 17 Stand at a cricket-ground (8)

19 Make indebted; constrain (6)

23 Southeast Asian nation (9)

25 Fix deeply, implant (5) 26 Commotion, fuss (3-2) 27 Person who has sex outside marriage (9) 28 Headquarters of the Red Cross (6)

29 Go before (7)

DOWN

1 Cause suffering, distress (7)

2 The USSR’s last head of state (9)

3 Ridiculous joker (7) 4 Making no value judgments (6)

5 Complete turn (8)

6 Posy (7)

7 Tropical fruit (5)

8 Passé (3,3) 15 Compensate for money spent (9)

16 Greek dish of meat, tomatoes and aubergines (8)

17 Predicament (6) 18 Descent, ancestry (7) 20 Easily cracked (7)

21 Sign the back of a cheque (7)

22 Raise the price of a house after accepting an offer (6)

24 Low monotonous sound (5)