DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Absinthe wipes out part of the prison population (8,6) 9 Hardship is the other side of the coin (7)

10 Trade transformed business style (3,4)

11 All outlast conflict except for us (5)

12 Sail a kilometre into the lure (9)

13 Wine server is the one who removes the list? (8) 15 Changing name and hair style (4)

18 Green and alcoholic (4) 19 Use term designed to include one who’s retired (8) 23 Face heated East End debate (9)

24 Slacker settled without resistance (5) 26 Gender-bending and record-breaking niece (7) 27 Heard disapproval increasing for drinking spree (5-2)

28 An old flea circus dreads to be ignored (4,2,4,4)

DOWN

1 Got the better of the material (7)

2 Fastener I have inserted in right shell (5)

3 Military vehicle may buckle section of highway (8)

4 Master love poetry on the ruler (8)

5 Tyrant of the barbarous Latins (6)

6 Status present to be accepted by the gang (6) 7 Split hasty meal (9)

8 Swear about very low mark in subject (6)

14 Joint principal and vicar gutted in the country (5,4) 16 Kind of a long distance to take taxi (8)

17 Wealthy man can absorb dear elements of the bargain (5-3)

18 Run in stockings, but fall behind and totter (6) 20 Sound stages in Russian regions (7)

21 Go on a spree and take in a show (6)

22 Spread bad news about heartless teacher (6) 25 Work overtime on musical production (5)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Ringside seat. 9 Aglow. 10 Lucrative. 11 Technocrat. 12 Snag. 14 Remote. 16 Redolent. 18 Causeway. 19 Mystic. 22 Mite. 23 Democratic. 26 Eucharist. 27 Tease. 28 Legionnaires.

Down: 1 Relic. 2 Now and then. 3 Solace. 4 Deceased. 5 Swan. 6 Alignment. 7 Batter. 8 Weight. 13 Copywriter. 15 Moustache. 17 Valerian. 18 Camber. 20 Cachet. 21 Rostra. 24 Tears. 25 Bali.