Double Crossword
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CRYPTIC CLUES 1 Distraught, but next to acting normally? (6,7) 10 Everyday, Murphy spoke to sportscaster (11) 11 Label is twangy at regular points (3) 12 Well-informed after reading penultimate letters (4) 13 Can’t molten slag be a trouble maker? (10) 15 Smokes where the molten core’s hot (8) 16 Appeal to the one settling the bill to take rupees (6) 18 Even debatable how to fill an empty stomach (6) 20 Cut around circular tablet that’s turning sweet (8) 23 Time to kill, spread out and add relish (4,6) 24 Be familiar with the negative voice (4) 27 Time to retreat every so often (3) 28 Appearance in the flesh at a popular motor race (11) 29 Sensational writer had written out immortal dates (13)
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2 Poor salesmen had left out wholesale (2,5) 3 Bit of news caught in the excitement (4) 4 Selected passages with added ecstasy, oddly not shown (8) 5 Pick up eye opener after tossing off tonic (6) 6 Jump list for Chinese takeaway (6,4) 7 Game of chance was handled rottenly, without numbers to start with (7) 8 Boat for Sarkish leader on Jersey, say (4) 9 Radical promotion and support to keep up awkward gait (8) 14 Sit if room’s turned very loud (10) 15 More’s cut off for the shopper (8) 17 Initial design was to hold mass after the new moon (8) 19 Cover a well-rounded cow (7) 21 Break up on catching couple in underwear (7) 22 Credit limiting acne outbreak to parts of June and July (6) 25 Finish first, before the last drink (4) 26 Fish food is a bit off (4) Down:
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QUICK CLUES 1 50th anniversary (6,7) 10 Instrument that measures temperature (11) 11 Equal value (3) 12 Corpse (4) 13 Huge, colossal (10) 15 Sufficiency (8) 16 River (6) 18 Involuntary response (6) 20 Borough of New York City (8) 23 Interpreter (10) 24 Predatory canine (4) 27 Annoy (3) 28 Invalid, without legal force (4,3,4) 29 Delay action until later (13)
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2 Still unpaid, in arrears (7) 3 Rubbish tip (4) 4 Mathematical ability (8) 5 Not neat (6) 6 Water supply for agriculture (10) 7 Blow up (7) 8 Injure with a knife (4) 9 First-year university student (8) 14 Travelling beyond the speed of sound (10) 15 Landing field (8) 17 Haughty, imperious (8) 19 More candid or direct (7) 21 Strategic viewing point (7) 22 Spanish dish of seafood, vegetables and rice (6) 25 Lose colour (4) 26 Biblical paradise (4)