YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Set fair; 5 Fills up, 9 Lyric, 10 Cream teas, 11 Newspapers, 12 Scab, 14 Past ones peak, 18 Poet Laureate, 21 Ours, 22 Double bass, 25 Incurious, 26 Maize, 27 Ecstasy, 28 Salient.

Down: 1 Splint, 2 Thrown, 3 Acceptable, 4 Recap, 5 Free-range, 6 Limb, 7 Sketches, 8 Pushbike, 13 Isothermal, 15 Tautology, 16 Opposite, 17 Retracts, 19 Facile, 20 Assert, 23 Buses, 24 Area.

QUICK

Across: 1 Inn, 3 Cube, 5 Bait, (Incubate) 8 Stampede, 10 Tsar, 11 Tar, 13 Dates, 14 Confirmed, 16 Roe, 17 Aim, 19 Impotence, 21 Audit, 22 Gnu, 24 Idea, 25 Earnings, 26 Easy, 27 Real, 28 Wed.

Down: 1 Inst, 2 Near, 3 Capability, 4 Bedlam, 6 Alsatian, 7 Tiresome, 9 Taboo, 12 Additional, 14 Creative, 15 Needless, 18 Icing, 20 Pirate, 22 Gnaw, 23 Used.