Double Crossword
1 Contrite pair turned to healer (12) 9 Central strand and relic of the pace of city life (3,4) 10 After quarrel, ban expressions that hold back facilitator (7) 11 Slightly pear-shaped bits of corn (4) 12 Brings to mind radical cell or sect (10) 15 Aid corps worked off and on (8) 16 Some vermin transferred overdraft into landlord’s income (6) 18 Strafe ruins on the last course (6) 19 Made sure dirt was more well-made (8) 22 Ordinary speech made extraordinary caravel run (10) 23 Bound to be on the exterior of superstructure (4) 25 Writer, in turn, cuts off relative (7) 27 Knitted doilies to put on a pedestal (7) 28 Tearing off a strip when less formally attired (8,4) DOWN 1 Portents are mistaken for prayer (11) 2 Turner rose from the bottom (4) 3 In that place, dig mostly electronic music (8) 4 Tomb he constructed for mafiosi (3,3) 5 Crawling, like everyone, through broken sunroof (2,3,5) 6 Some trace elements of Moray (3) 7 Curl one’s lip up under good leafy vegetables (6) 8 Port is spilt on toast (6) 13 Introduce in planning and building society (6,5) 14 Ray blasted through the heads of congregational officers (3,7) 17 Taking offence when genitals are interfered with (8) 18 Coming to a brand’s ultimate outlet (6) 20 Hand on the outside of original expansion joint (6) 21 Liquid emulsion dropped on rolled oats, etc (6) 24 Doubling small number is something that shouldn’t be done (2-2) 26 Equal footing for bottomless section (3)