DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Blitz a good man with high flown talk (7) 5 Smart to lock up arrowhead and butcher’s knife (7) 10 Is room in prison limited by numerous bits and pieces? (10) 11 Giddy goat in Roman outfit (4) 12 Soothing material in speech from the royal household (8) 13 Overtake the best sort of computer (6) 14 Storyteller in the billiards room (4) 15 Canes making up hair of ancient woman (10) 17 Cotton fabric struggles with cosmetics (10) 20 Fire and pillage (4) 22 Poor vision to be left out of the planning of 18-down (6) 24 Draw together and catch disease (8) 26 Drunk keeps quiet about that place (4) 27 Old dryer is growing unmanageable (10) 28 Hitched to the back of ram raider in action (7) 29 Just like animals, top savages ail (7)
DOWN
2 Contracts to rig amidst folded paper (7) 3 Appeared to breach Blair’s interpretation of two houses of parliament (9) 4 Therefore starting left and right of the sun (5) 6 Salty soil suited stalwarts (9) 7 Carry on when a coverlet ends out of bed (3,2) 8 Absorb eleven, or at the outside, twelve dozen (7) 9 Bulb fell back in remains of cigar (6) 15 A tour’s limits are found in the rider’s seat, with a leg either side (9) 16 Somehow, surer chap was rising again (9) 18 Ring designs imply a site of the original Games (7) 19 Supposing that old Peruvians take direction (2,4) 21 Poor coach has the French in his ear, to some extent (7) 23 Wiretapping upset some old man (5) 25 Matron is sure livelier under new head (5)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Lap (7) 5 Supernaturally strange (7) 10 Eclipse, tower above (10) 11 As well (4) 12 Maintain or protect from danger (8) 13 Pulled sharply (6) 14 Ale (4) 15 Shorten (10) 17 Blizzards (10) 20 Hyphen (4) 22 Horse in endurance races (6) 24 Dependent on drugs (8) 26 Musical finale (4) 27 Inexpert (10) 28 Existing only in outline (7) 29 Unshakably determined (7)
DOWN
2 Contrary, opposite (7) 3 Opener of wine bottles (9) 4 Discharge from a wound (5) 6 Honeymooners (9) 7 Another time (5) 8 Beginning to develop (7) 9 Modifying word (6) 15 Results of a disaster (9) 16 Impropriety, unseemliness (9) 18 Interconnected system (7) 19 Former actor who was the 40th American president (6) 21 Ten gallon hat (7) 23 Leavening agent for bread (5) 25 Great fear (5)