Crossword: Win £550
Both sets of clues lead to the same answers, revealing in the shaded squares the name of a new film starring Peter Bowles (8).
STRAIGHT CLUES ACROSS
8 Middle-of-the-road (8) 9 Explanation, cause (6) 10 Seaborne soldier (6) 11 Item for diagnostic use (8) 12 Can do the job (5) 13 Once more (5) 14 Boggy land (5) 16 Forces (5) 18 Steals, or removes (5) 20 Orchestra section (5) 25 Sleeping areas (8) 26 On a ship (6) 27 Stern, austere (6) 28 Final decade of a century (8)
DOWN
1 Red salad item (6) 2 Brings by courier, etc (8) 3 Sheets of a book (5) 4 Splendid meal (5) 5 Attempts (5) 6 Covering a footway (6) 7 Unspecified age in the past (8) 15 Roused from sleep (8) 17 Landing grounds (8) 19 Merited (6) 21 Categorised (6) 22 British wild animals (5) 23 Putting into employment (5) 24 Decorative colouring material (5)
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
8 Adjust method and speed (8) 9 Argument to do with a child (6) 10 Items of grammar in English language to do with the sea (6) 11 Example of epics men edited (8) 12 Manages to get cloaks (5) 13 A profit. Not for the first time! (5) 14 Not all field marshals like such wet ground (5) 16 Brands with medical apparatus, knowing each scar initially (5) 18 Accepts cooked steak (5) 20 Ladies supporter on ship with money (5) 25 Boredom’s one result of these spaces (8) 26 One piece of wood on a ship (6) 27 Cut off to a point. That’s harsh! (6) 28 A period with less than ten encumbrances (8)
DOWN
1 Fruit seen around the mat, too! (6) 2 Rescues and brings to one’s door (8) 3 Much can be written on these servants (5) 4 Feta’s prepared for the banquet (5) 5 Makes an effort, but tires out (5) 6 Using slabs, possibly, to create feeling of hunger around six (6) 7 A little while, on occasion in the past (8) 15 Ask a new group that rouses one (8) 17 Places for coming down to earth left in broadcasts (8) 19 Endear characters, as deserved (6) 21 Ted’s or otherwise. It’s classified! (6) 22 Baffles the animals (5) 23 Taking advantage of and exploiting someone (5) 24 Inapt application of colouring (5)