DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
1 Rushed return in charge of the blue (6)
4 Strand between the awfully prim and slightly unseemly (8)
10 Head that is a foot in 22 yards (9)
11 Way a politician can make an impression (5) 12 Appealed to add peel in mix (7)
13 Wine and cheese brought back with every second in road (7)
14 First class turn in vulgar Latin tongue (7)
16 Make fast dog enter sight (6)
19 Filling pick up with tray sides (6)
21 Head covering given free rein to line cap (7)
25 Bully boy ruined funfair (7)
26 A team leader’s return is in question (2,5)
28 In reprisal, vowed a round of fire (5)
29 Shone light in the middle and scattered about (9)
30 Abnormal capital letters around the railway terminal (8)
31 Bilge polished off wheel (6)
DOWN
1 Get away from test centre with head (6)
2 Video terminal switched on colour (5)
3 One who does not believe in field cultivation (7)
5 Note answer from the lowest levels (6)
6 Recycling, I reused what remains (7)
7 Page with freedom to move is commonplace (9)
8 Echoed bog plant in a rush (8)
9 Read law rectifying unfair treatment (3,4)
15 Blubbering drunk gets stuck into rye at party (9)
17 Cleaning lady is mother of powerful attraction (8)
18 Monkey suited Martian (7)
20 Capital journey based on crude oil (7)
22 Dashing motorist dropped top for Italian food (7)
23 Meaning of a puzzle having no final solution? (6)
24 Want split leaf to be pine leaf (6)
27 Chambers song about the outback (5)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Profuse, luxuriant (6)
4 Able to walk around (8)
10 Orchestra leader (9)
11 Wet thoroughly (5)
12 Lecherous (7)
13 Stone fruit (7)
14 Liberty (7)
16 Lashings, stacks (6)
19 Small (6)
21 Manufacturing plant (7)
25 Acknowledgement of payment (7)
26 Brass instrument (7)
28 Reason, intelligence (5)
29 Give added strength (9)
30 Superintendent (8)
31 Interlocks, knits together (6)
DOWN
1 Setting, site (6)
2 Second closest planet to the sun (5)
3 Walk by dragging one’s feet (7)
5 Bricklayer’s cement (6)
6 Endure, experience (7)
7 Like an uncle (9)
8 Written exposition (8)
9 English blue cheese (7)
15 Taciturnity (9)
17 In the open air (8)
18 Skipper (7)
20 Hangs about (7)
22 Edible underground fungus (7)
23 Famish (6)
24 Greek capital (6)
27 Roost (5)