Double Crossword
ACROSS
CRYPTIC CLUES 1 Arriving in large numbers, slow and not so slow! (5,3,4) 9 No bullies, sadly, are lacking answers (9) 10 Evenly matched with little in the way of reputable qualifications (5) 11 Literal admission to party politics (4) 12 Crowd wrongly blames sage (10) 14 Staff given the sack and struck down (4,4) 15 Outwits at the end of the day’s play (6) 18 Published ballad on the amount of money spent (6) 19 Trial paper finally confronting school leavers (8) 22 Tertiary function of some insurance (5,5) 24 God had little authority (4) 26 La Paz rebuilt a feature of many Spanish towns (5) 27 On show, having entered the pro-am? (2,3,4) 28 Join path less beaten by Communist leader (6,6)
DOWN
1 Aviation pioneer turned to spittle (4,5) 2 Key lies in pieces (4) 3 Put a stop to rubbish clogging crumbling dike (8) 4 Family members hadn’t left in silence, unhappily (6) 5 Tie fan belt off where it’s threadbare (4-6) 6 Puts up a memorial (5) 7 Lean spinner was first class (6) 8 Gripping implements for landing, initially in jetties (6) 13 Candles, say and wagon, say, oscillate in size (3,3,4) 16 Crew admitted a ship’s structure was bent (9) 17 Beavered away and put a songbird in a cage? (4,2,2) 18 Not making copy of what’s been recorded (2,4) 20 Loose covering for evenly fraying passage to the lungs (6) 21 Entrance is ill-advised around six (6) 23 State of hairdo? Not the right state! (5) 25 Flourishing in spring (4)
ACROSS
QUICK CLUES 1 Sound transmission using four speakers (12) 9 Discharged substances (9) 10 Cranium (5) 11 Soviet Union (1,1,1,1) 12 Repeated again (10) 14 For a particular purpose (8) 15 Twisted out of shape (6) 18 Ground mass in which particles are embedded (6) 19 Short amusing account of an incident (8) 22 Acted up (10) 24 Animals parks (4) 26 Explode, break out (5) 27 Asepsis, disinfection (9) 28 Unpromising late developer (4,8)
DOWN
1 Dormant (9) 2 Tibetan breed of small long-coated dog (4) 3 The modern Zimbabwe (8) 4 Former Spanish currency (6) 5 Religious ceremony or practice (10) 6 Eskimo (5) 7 Madagascan primates (6) 8 Escaped, evaded (6) 13 With earnest application (10) 16 Inciting, goading (9) 17 Involuntary, automatic (4-4) 18 Constituent, component (6) 20 Literary compositions (6) 21 Capital of the Bahamas (6) 23 Nettled, pricked (5) 25 Short dress (4)