DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

CRYPTIC 1 Unseasonably steamy times for subcontinental tallymen? (6,7)

10 Went beyond Romeo’s lead in Verona play (7) 11 Country wedding vow follows the Japanese code (7)

12 Dropped off tattered pelts (5)

13 Churchman of note interrupting version of Moon River (9)

14 Prepare less for exams than substitute for the role (10)

17 and 19-across Institute pitcher was standout performer (4,4)

20 Female badger mauled cottontail in kitchen plot (4,6)

23 Rules tend to be flouted as a consequence (3,6) 25 Swell dumped litres in the yacht (5)

27 Bill is singing well! (7) 28 More disadvantaged when born with dire condition (7)

29 Blunt flats coming to a point (5-8)

DOWN

2 Relative mass leaving icemen in confusion (5) 3 Loosen rein and change course by way of response (2,6) 4 Grandmother grew remote within a very short distance (9)

5 In the city block in under half an hour (5)

6 Visionary sees extremely messy street traffic in the end (6)

7 Flared up again at rule governing diet (9)

8 Kind of hush caught on island (6)

9 Turn into retro style of car (6)

15 Dread playing bad stuntman (9)

16 One who comes out like a bud at teen party (9) 18 Father operated bakery around dawn (8)

19 Proposal to include hydrogen in bomb sites (6) 21 Quality of tea urn brew (6)

22 Sign of stone in his heart (6)

24 Employers are assured, but shaken on the inside (5) 26 Strange notion to lose time in food (5)