Double Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Proposing to make part of golf overfamiliar (7,7) 10 Like a jumbo plane, he used the pointy end (11) 11 Kick out every other one of those (3) 12 Forwards knapsack (4) 13 Wet sleighs fly off, lighter than air! (10) 15 A grass-strewn, very weedy stretch of water (8) 16 Assignations of some of the country’s tsarists (6) 19 English, Irish or Gordon, like me (6) 21 Plain and simple ingredients of shop menu (8) 24 Vault on ends of generator in electric motors (10) 25 Unless naked, turn to the camera (4) 27 Limb and head saved from injury (3) 28 Helpful caste ironed out ... (11) 29 ... coupling in a Hollywood studio hangout (9,5)
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2 Misguided crusade over an old banger (4,3) 3 Beardless goat with a broken hart (4) 4 The Netherlands’ original oneness breaking down into double Dutch? (8) 5 Cooler temperature scale on the hog’s back (6) 6 Dance to genuine sounding old recorder (4-2-4) 7 Rental’s new processes, for the bucks (7) 8 Bottom level of grades, unfortunately not an ‘A’ (5) 9 Gales joined up with galls? (8) 14 Bill cleaner set out in place of worship (10) 17 Malignant evil is endless spell (8) 18 Old American officer battled a lion (8) 20 Honour for involvement in birth, dissolving clots (7) 22 Before first light, was flaming seized by cat’s paw! (7) 23 Earn reuse as rings (6) 24 Devotee in America threw up a dog’s breakfast (5) 26 Male lead with half the head room (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Renunciation, surrender (14) 10 Germanic settlers of Britain in the Dark Ages (5-6) 11 Mug (3) 12 Hold back, restrain (4) 13 Person engaging in hazardous exploits or travels (10) 15 Decorative carving (8) 16 Sew (6) 19 More lax (6) 21 Rebound from a surface (8) 24 Exaggerated (10) 25 Inkling (4) 27 Pair (3) 28 Roughly accurate (11) 29 Uprightness, worthiness (14)
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2 Congest with blood (7) 3 Religious image (4) 4 Dilemma (8) 5 Compound with the same chemical formula, but different atomic arrangement (6) 6 Moment of uncertainty (10) 7 Take a passage from a larger work (7) 8 Become narrower at one end (5) 9 Vigilant (8) 14 Lottery on a horse race (10) 17 Milliner (8) 18 Molotov cocktail (8) 20 Taxing, oppressive (7) 22 Outlet for fire hoses (7) 23 Part that transmits motion from the camshaft (6) 24 Injunction (5) 26 Shelf at the bottom of a window (4)