Double Crossword
ACROSS
CRYPTIC CLUES 1 Throw light on the endlessly sexy marrying the unattractive (7) 5 Tossing coins, as required by gaming rooms (7) 9 Often hopes guilt sets in after a blooper (4,2,3,6) 10 Downfall after heartless arrest (4) 11 Rub out what’s lettered behind snobby centre (10) 13 Odd whims gave sir a shock (8) 14 Hit or miss, in addition to being the right order (6) 17 Rubbish spread about hideout of groundhog, say (6) 19 Like gold dust, not at all green! (8) 22 Lent identification with promises to repay that are easily repelled (10) 23 Spheres or hollow balls (4) 25 Touching cast raise parts in an escalating flight (6,9) 26 Unfair treatment over undressed timber (3,4) 27 Mission of doctor to appear in badly-written essay (7)
DOWN
1 Border of Manhattan to traverse, roughly around the island (4,5) 2 Gearing up quietly before I’m entering the gang (7) 3 Rude yahoo’s interminable greeting (4) 4 Lacking the facilities for diners to eat big cheeses (8) 5 Tick for a feather in one’s cap (6) 6 Note Samson tore into wall builder (10) 7 Penny pincher bore spirit that needed raising (7) 8 Married with quarters outside for the European (5) 12 Shortness of entrance is unusual (10) 15 Treason of unorthodoxy entering yours truly’s religious community (9) 16 Having hooves for the glue aunt boils down (8) 18 Reject forged visa on entry to Wall Street institution (7) 20 Untold numbers of dairy products can be seen in document (7) 21 Prayerbook that one’s including in distribution of alms (6) 22 Turned me into skin and bone (5) 24 Cancer initially rife in Hackney (4)
ACROSS
QUICK CLUES 1 Disinterred (7) 5 Half-suppressed laugh (7) 9 Ability to be understood (15) 10 Coffee shop (4) 11 Central Asian nation (10) 13 Surveyor of voting intentions (8) 14 Bear witness (6) 17 Brood of animals (6) 19 Substance of a complaint (8) 22 Italian vegetable soup (10) 23 Sister and wife of Zeus (4) 25 Veal cutlet in bread crumbs (6,9) 26 Sceptic (7) 27 Mother and father (7)
DOWN
1 Governed by bishops (9) 2 Detestable (7) 3 Product of lactation (4) 4 Rained softly (8) 5 Paring, splinter (6) 6 Resourcefulness (10) 7 Cartilage in cooked meat (7) 8 Artificial fibre resembling silk (5) 12 Appraisal (10) 15 Octopus’ appendages (9) 16 Move cargo from one form of transport to another (8) 18 Detachable cover for the rear of a vehicle (7) 20 Mosque official who makes the call to prayer (7) 21 Rubber (6) 22 Used a scythe (5) 24 Wharf (4)