Double Crossword
1 Blunder or incident is unsettling (12) 9 Lay with a companion with pure heart (7) 10 Bob-tailed rabbit on prickly plant (7) 11 Transfix when vampire’s back (4) 12 Bakery work is a respite (10) 15 Reclaims from Las Vegas disaster (8) 16 Make a bolt for a computer terminal in government division (6) 18 Knowingly break leg, say (6) 19 Gives lessons to heartlessly cruellest form (8) 22 Record isn’t a sort that plays host (10) 23 I can make out an old ruler of Peru (4) 25 Can’t use crackers in a fruitcake (7) 27 Look around said ravaged coast (7) 28 Giving status as self-contained (4-8) DOWN 1 Putting an unfavourable construction on making up a poor word in this puzzle (2,1,3,5) 2 Lose weight in assembly (4) 3 Ran around naked and was barred (8) 4 Polish grain after removing base and heading (6) 5 Sent in star-crossed vagabonds (10) 6 Circle carbon centre of the globe (3) 7 Sheep seems oddly taken with old Egyptian crowned head (6) 8 Less an austere gentleman than one ruling for another (6) 13 Dialled in nursing after putting in another order (11) 14 Made to measure behind, or outrage dame (6-4) 17 Nearly empty contents of sonnet composed by a great poet (8) 18 In view of that fact that gene is spliced (6) 20 Traces of sulphur on the nether regions (6) 21 Most bloody and violent arrest (6) 24 Christmas delivery men are rummaging inside (4) 26 Rating pitch (3)