DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Slasher follows street entertainer (8)

6 Back harness-racer to go over it again (5)

10 Cap is so strange for an artist (7)

11 Herb appeared during virgin’s engagement (7) 12 Volume of water landed midstream (5)

13 High points of me returning in electrifying scene (9)

14 and 21-across Refuse to participate in work with scalper (3,3)

16 Capsule broadcast nine’s sport (5,6)

18 Showman to penetrate retina after surgery (11) 21 See 14-across 23 Caught lion tearing apart Egyptian queen (9) 25 Christmas decoration left amongst the sacred (5) 27 Lag badly before and after morning mixture (7) 28 Cut or diced on a bit of toast (7)

29 Giant object cast in bronze (5)

30 Insisted on ordering some order! (8)

DOWN

2 Mastication cropped up without a word (5) 3 Crooked cop inters superior officer (9)

4 Saw to bear out rhubarb tips (7)

5 Migrate, dancing to jazz music (7)

6 Cooking appointment in the mountains (5) 7 Increase in force to wind up in soccer violence (9) 8 Flying horse pauses after jumping over starting gate (7)

9 African leader voting on love god (6)

15 Where a cobbler goes for work until his very end (2,3,4)

17 Rob ran the organisation with human qualities (9) 18 Delight the heart of the French with song (7)

19 Shot at lure (7)

20 Can dune grow when shaded? (7)

22 Poetry, in Greek, about the tiresome (6)

24 Unholy father raised shrew (5)

26 Flower in piles around the university (5)