DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Swindle by heartless pimps and rascals (6)
5 Half-pint broad causing deep offence? (6)
10 Was at one’s post when a bed’s made up (5)
11 Onside in a game in the country (9)
12 Make out below booth (10) 13 Sing the praises when backing twin (4)
15 Posted off to headquarters (6) 17 Well-conditioned after boxing brutally slain title contender (8)
19 Starting off with five undergoing starvation and suffering from the night before (4,4)
20 Big cat, losing direction, is in the river (6)
23 Muscle complaint (4) 24 Refresh one’s memory of the European language above (6,2,2)
27 Do another wrong while travelling (2,3,4)
28 Loose sand removed from the unstained (5)
29 Has retained hankering for scavengers (6)
30 Hinge on profound conclusion to report (6)
DOWN
2 Protected quarter overrun by bounder (5)
3 Fashion helping restraint (10)
4 So accepting suggestion or belief (6)
5 Particular group painted daycare centre (8) 6 Revolting order (4)
7 Tom Cruise acting as an outfitter (9)
8 Rich in one step (6) 9 Village Shakesperian production (6)
14 Small town pair push out member (6,4)
16 Play on words softly or with bite (9)
18 Silly moo landing in planet which may be deadly (8) 19 Socialise with tramp, cutting off big shot (6)
21 Sent us out off at the end of the day (6)
22 Offended to be looked after (6)
25 Submitted to Russian leader (3,2)
26 Stand for the average (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Social blunders (6) 5 Domestic servant (6) 10 South American beast of burden (5)
11 Greenish nut (9) 12 Frantic, overwrought (10) 13 Warmth (4)
15 Spurn, decline (6) 17 System of physical exercises (8)
19 Confirm, ratify (8) 20 Floating wreckage (6) 23 Scottish island (4) 24 Black and white (10) 27 Making of cartoons (9) 28 Body snatcher (5) 29 Mixture of beer and lemonade (6)
30 Painful, raw (6)
DOWN
2 Egyptians or Syrians (5) 3 Murder of one’s brother (10)
4 Partition between two cavities in the body (6) 5 Naughty behaviour (8) 6 Tidy (4)
7 Track and field events (9) 8 Sailplane (6)
9 Unborn child (6)
14 Danish capital (10) 16 Portuguese man-of-war (9)
18 Act of wanton cruelty (8) 19 Optical (6)
21 Mixture of cereal, nuts and fruit (6)
22 Large wasp (6) 25 Atmospheric layer that absorbs ultraviolet radiation (5)
26 Farm building (4)