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Both sets of clues lead to the same answers, revealing in the shaded squares an actress whose film The House With A Clock In Its Walls is out now (4,9)
STRAIGHT CLUES ACROSS
1 Amount which may be held (8) 5 A word describing a type of ‘doing’ word (6) 10 Carmen, e.g. (5) 11 Applicable everywhere (9) 12 Natural fleece material (9) 13 Find the solution (5) 14 Sort, type (4) 15 Ketchup, e.g. (5) 18 Start (5) 20 Shoe fastener (4) 22 Watchful (5) 24 UK newspaper (9) 26 Organically (9) 27 Heavenly messenger (5) 28 From Copenhagen, e.g. (6) 29 Chummy (8)
DOWN
1 Select, pick (6) 2 Going before (9) 3 Applauded by hand (7) 4 Goods vehicle (5) 6 Female garments (7) 7 Artist’s stand (5) 8 Trusted, relied upon (8) 9 King of the Jungle (4) 16 Original, not altered (9) 17 Procured (8) 19 Personalities (7) 20 Baggage (7) 21 Totally (6) 23 Devoured (5) 24 Of good height (4) 25 Cake tier (5)
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Put a limit on an urban area and its ability to produce (8) 5 Starters of all daily verses easily read, but it’s a part of speech (6) 10 A rope trick, or some other entertainment (5) 11 Joint which may be used anywhere at all? (9) 12 Warm material, related to an ovine creature (9) 13 Loves, strangely, to finish this puzzle (5) 14 Generous type (4) 15 Cheek which is often red or brown (5) 18 Start with another binge (5) 20 Fastener for delicate material (4) 22 Vigilant later, possibly? (5) 24 Wire and paper (9) 26 Of course, it’s not in an artificial manner (9) 27 Somehow glean he’s a heavenly creature… (5) 28 …and his letters come from Denmark… (6) 29 …dry, elfin letters which are amicable! (8)
DOWN
1 Pick colours, half orange or somewhat ecru initially (6) 2 Going ahead before surrendering (9) 3 Commonly worn out, yet applauded manually (7) 4 Seeing a lorry when it’s partially struck home (5) 6 Puts on clothes. Lady’s clothes (7) 7 It offers support in the studio (5) 8 I bled, Eve collapsed. So it’s thought (8) 9 Creature of pride (4) 16 Can gun he’d redesigned be still the same? (9) 17 Got in a bed to change (8) 19 Are nuts about people’s dispositions (7) 20 Travel items for another Gaul with scrambled egg? (7) 21 Completely percolated, we hear (6) 23 Consumed with a famous college? (5) 24 A little short, allowances are made for Lofty! (4) 25 Stratum hen? (5)