Double Crossword
ACROSS
QUICK CLUES 1 Restrained from biting, or speaking (7) 5 One of the Romance languages (7) 9 Freshwater fish (5) 10 Inflammation of the extremities due to cold (9) 11 Brazilian city (3,2,7) 14 Needleworker’s equipment (7) 16 Miser (7) 17 Female reproductive organs (7) 19 Double-reed instrument (7) 20 Disastrous (12) 24 Impossible to hear (9) 25 Vine with a green edible fruit (5) 26 Throat passage (7) 27 Filters out (7)
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1 Process of ripening and development (10) 2 Relating to animals (10) 3 Metric unit of capacity (5) 4 Affirm (7) 5 Cold, chill (7) 6 Sperm whale secretion, used in perfumes (9) 7 Today’s Persia (4) 8 Religious sisters (4) 12 Black and white (10) 13 Subtly dangerous, insidious (10) 15 Banditry (9) 18 Street orator’s platform (7) 19 Swimming costume (7) 21 Happen (5) 22 Feeble and ineffectual man (4) 23 Spanish sparkling wine (4)
ACROSS
CRYPTIC CLUES 1 Lowers me into custom-made sedan (7) 5 Creative types first appear in university faculty (7) 9 Falsifying age and one’s patronage (5) 10 Each naval battle was a barrage from on high (9) 11 Slam the grant distributed with detachment (2,4,6) 14 Playing its role takes your time (7) 16 Wrong, in law, to have purer heart put on the rack (7) 17 Interminable number nets vacant crown (7) 19 More oatmeal from an English cafe (7) 20 Each temper blades to take it back (3,4,5) 24 Minster, say, out of sorts with an old Prime Minister (9) 25 Offend first class section between Africa and Asia (5) 26 Navy rank that covers single ship painter (7) 27 Polish container for half the beer in the liquor store (7)
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1 Sketch another head without expression and get no satisfaction (4,1,5) 2 Russian fighter doles out relocations on a grand scale (10) 3 A weight was lifted from the Indian state (5) 4 Puts together a booklet on essential food supplies (7) 5 Silver foil isn’t a counter ... (7) 6 ... serving trio a tart in eatery (9) 7 Body of followers, with church leader in the background (4) 8 Test sent off in the direction of printer (4) 12 Having no reception after emerging from cordillera (3,2,5) 13 Allowance for primes is turning up a small number (10) 15 Ways to get in transports of delight (9) 18 Public image of academic riled insiders (7) 19 Garden trainer that tillers used (7) 21 Half of toilet seat strewn with litter (5) 22 Dodge a slightly mutinous camel (4) 23 Outbreak of wind, some originating in the stomach (4)