Double Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Unstable state in capable urban planning (6,8) 9 Radiant after being initially anxious, glum and blue (5) 10 Icon tossed in watercourse by a cathedral chapter (9) 11 Dissolute parasites cast out sin (10) 13 Signal a vehicle to slow down (4) 15 Pistol-whipped aircraft operators (6) 16 Burn a dummy behind overturned charabanc on the outskirts of the city (8) 18 After the end of war, inflame hostilities with soldier (8) 19 Patsy is too genial to hide inside (6) 21 Red rambling rose (4) 22 Dead bear he butchered after doffing cap (10) 25 Huge robin turned out to be one in the hood (9) 26 Turn one’s nose up and turn tail after kick up the backside (5) 28 Smells a tin, making point in the course of a meal? (5,9)
DOWN
1 Scrap of underwear with outer layers of wool (5) 2 Love regular periods in the infield (3) 3 Not new handshake for the time being (3,3,4) 4 Shy away after comelier sort dumped me (6) 5 Finish university in first class, it’s like clockwork to some extent (8) 6 Forbidden to speak to musicians (4) 7 Incorporated ancestral lineage with malice aforethought (2,4,5) 8 Grace sparks glance between European leaders (8) 12 Element that is formulaic in structure (11) 14 Holds up, except for some hair (10) 15 Salesman raised taking advantage of reading (8) 17 Maniac or demented penguin (8) 20 Picked up discarded antler (6) 23 Needs treatment if as thick as a plank (5) 24 Boy held his head up for some curry (4) 27 Weapon turned up during seizure (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 At all hours (6-3-5) 9 Book of photographs (5) 10 Real or imagined injustice (9) 11 Path of a flying object (10) 13 Mix, agitate (4) 15 Narrow pass (6) 16 Undeserving (8) 18 Thin wire (8) 19 Be imminent (6) 21 Close (4) 22 Spent the winter in a dormant condition (10) 25 Personify (9) 26 Perfect, optimal (5) 28 Not able to be understood (14)
DOWN
1 Acclimatise (5) 2 Ornamental sphere (3) 3 Pen name (3,2,5) 4 Pantihose (6) 5 Person who leaves his country to settle in another (8) 6 Molten rock (4) 7 Elector (11) 8 Double-crossed (8) 12 Association, membership (11) 14 Having the air of authority (10) 15 Guardian (8) 17 Keen, penetrating (8) 20 Breakfast food (6) 23 Dig, burrow (5) 24 Shortly (4) 27 Outward flow (3)