DOUBLE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Without room to crawl (4) 3 Blue mark made lance sacred (10)
10 Knight turned Bismarck onto food (7)
11 Wine may detract from mostly cold dish (7) 12 Medical man in rehab struck off register (9)
13 Troy is one savage beast (5)
14 Mean bloke to be resounding (8)
15 Open and shut, in the case of detectives (6)
18 Lots of boats take off by the banks of the Thames (6) 19 Unsuitable term for number in simmer sauce (8) 22 Aides abandoned personal views (5)
24 Good chance for flat bread? (4,5)
25 Catch hot-headed father in Arab capital (7) 26 Particular place is all over the place (7)
27 The winds of holiday fiction? (10)
28 Briefly seen vying with deadly sin (4)
CRYPTIC DOWN
1 Pray when upending row boat (7)
2 Cover road again to cure fears of accident (9)
4 Key movements and feelings (8)
5 Grants entry amidst confusion (6)
6 Prince of the church less sensitive to, for example, one or two (8,6)
7 Mistook a pillow case for an animal (5)
8 Desired end product after twelve months (7)
9 Top student, unhappy that is, to be perfectly honest (8,2,1,3)
16 Without much light, neon is altered in size (9) 17 Filmgoer to see act in order (8)
18 Toys with the last working day’s work party (7) 20 Befitting monarchs like Orbison and MacBeal? (7) 21 Reactionary to carry on a vendetta with a labour leader (6)
23 Seed strewn around the top of grass verges (5)
ACROSS
1 Corn’s outer covering (4) 3 Race course (10) 10 Biblical city whose walls were brought down by Joshua (7)
11 Japanese dish of raw fish (7)
12 Deep brown colour (9) 13 Compass, ambit (5) 14 Difficult to hold, greasy (8)
15 Customs duty (6) 18 Derrick (3,3)
19 Small scene or character sketch (8)
22 Covered with water (5) 24 Aspirational, enterprising (9)
25 Floating mass breaking free from a polar glacier (7) 26 Drop the ball forward, in rugby (5,2)
27 Concert hall (10) 28 Correct, right (4)
QUICK DOWN
1 Seizes control of an aircraft (7)
2 Relating to tailoring (9) 4 Worship of graven images (8)
5 Pale colour (6)
6 Unfair treatment based on bigotry (14)
7 Board used in seances (5) 8 Sobriquet (7) 9 Achievement (14) 16 Employee who sews garments at home (9) 17 Famously remote Saharan town (8) 18 Egg-shaped wind instrument (7)
20 Intrinsic quality (7) 21 Harass, pester (6) 23 Remove faults, improve (5)