Double Crossword
ACROSS
CRYPTIC CLUES 1 Infection from bug, a disorder of salesmen (6,7) 10 Pondered endlessly about exploitation (3) 11 Stretch out flat on junk dealer’s page (6-5) 12 Australian crashed a wild party (10) 13 Meryl stripped evergreen, say (4) 15 Add spice to any time of year (6) 16 Unfortunately pace setter failed to start something similar (2,6) 18 Way of making eggs is more than child’s play (4,4) 20 Lose colour, keeping account of one’s deceptive appearance (6) 23 Cotton on a stick (4) 24 European capital makes up mph for local interest only (6,4) 27 Empty present I made to street child (11) 28 Took the top from tablet when green about the gills (3) 29 Heavy metal in atmosphere? Try a trick for putting off the scent (7,6)
DOWN
2 Daughter’s complex treacle confection (7) 3 Pulp shared lodgings and quickly grew bigger (10) 4 Number growing wary in the country (6) 5 Waste away as ultimately false friend is probed by US intelligence (8) 6 Raising domestic animals for the stage (4) 7 Swordsman’s warning may derange regiment (2,5) 8 Best unsaid about upside down potty (4) 9 Hand over power with unrestrained glee, and in time (8) 14 Remoteness of a lot of soldiers (10) 15 Deficit in the other gasworks (8) 17 Hit man with two planks, over half an inch (8) 19 Peel off around the first letter (7) 21 Turn into game of animal or mineral (7) 22 Smaller sum in imaginary numbers at the bottom of the scale (6) 25 Burn rubber and skin (4) 26 League would have sides in blue (4)
ACROSS
QUICK CLUES 1 Cheeky, irreverent (13) 10 Choose (3) 11 Formed with simple shapes and lines (11) 12 Compacts, contracts (10) 13 Moderately hot (4) 15 Type of table linen (6) 16 Plain, unsophisticated (8) 18 African termite-eater (8) 20 Birds that lays its eggs in the nests of others (6) 23 Lymph node inflamed by plague (4) 24 Hors d’oeuvres (10) 27 Manager of the royal household (11) 28 Pear-shaped fruit (3) 29 Trustworthiness, steadfastness (13)
DOWN
2 Temporary, stopgap (7) 3 Retrograde (10) 4 Cured by hanging over a fire (6) 5 Effort, toil (8) 6 Mountain lake (4) 7 Release one’s grip (7) 8 Indian system of physical exercises (4) 9 Pink wading bird (8) 14 Suffering from hallucinations (10) 15 Disadvantage (8) 17 Ready (8) 19 Bones protecting the lungs (7) 21 Stay in good physical shape (4,3) 22 Smear all over (6) 25 Long, deep exhalation (4) 26 Woodwind instrument (4)