DOUBLE TROUBLE
ACROSS
1 ___ Schama, historian (5) 4 Confuses (7) 8 Transmitter (of disease) (7) 9 ___ Luft, US singer and actress and daughter of Judy Garland (5) 10 Bird venerated in ancient Egypt (4) 11 Small flying animal (3) 12 The ‘ ___ of Venice’, Othello (4) 15 ___ Agonistes, tragic poem by Milton (6) 16 Bladed power-tool (6) 19 Maxims, proverbs (4) 21 One of Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Women’ (3) 22 Food (4) 26 Any cricket score not attributed to a batsman (5) 27 Clothes, informally (7) 28 Sets alight deliberately (7) 29 Ellery ___, pseudonym for crime
writers Dannay and Lee (5)
DOWN
1 Russian Black Sea resort (5) 2 Ideology named after the author of Das Kapital (7) 3 Jimmy ___, star of Spender (4) 4 River flowing into the Dead Sea (6) 5 Adrian ___, teenage diary writer (4)
6 Key ___, Bogart film (5) 7 Captain Jack ___, Johnny Depp character (7) 13 ___ Fosse, Cabaret director (3) 14 Chinese zodiac animal (3)
15 Prime ___, Helen Mirren series (7) 17 Emerge (7) 18 Cult British pop band headed by Morrissey (6) 20 Compound combining two hydrogen atoms with one oxygen atom (5) 23 Sink (5) 24 Blow from a whip (4) 25 Country served by the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (4)
ACROSS
1 Simple ___, nursery-rhyme character (5) 4 Untidy messy piles (7) 8 ___ bag, shopping container (7) 9 ___ Doone, classic novel (5) 10 Heron-like bird (4) 11 Table tennis implement (3) 12 Anchor (a boat) (4) 15 Biblical character betrayed by Delilah (6) 16 Picture in pieces (6) 19 Cuts through (wood) (4) 21 ___ Adams, Julie & Julia star (3) 22 Worm-like larva (4) 26 Crowd-scene actor (5) 27 Puts through the eye of a needle (7)
DOWN
28 Battery-operated
lamps (7) 29 Female sovereign (5) 1 Russian 2014 Winter Olympics location (5) 2 System of political thinking akin to communism (7) 3 Hard part of a finger (4) 4 Name by which Katie Price was formerly known (6) 5 Small dark spot on the skin (4) 6 Musical term meaning ‘slowly’ (5) 7 Common, finch-like garden bird (7) 13 Short haircut (3) 14 Grunting animal (3) 15 Person believed to be guilty (7) 17 Top layer (7) 18 Long-established brand of crisps (6) 20 Melted ice (5) 23 Mixing bowl (5) 24 Eyelid hair (4) 25 Asian country, capital Baghdad (4)