Double trouble

ACROSS

Argue over petty things Basket material (6) • Diversion Eat greedily (6) • Ignored Inessential (8) • Current affairs Stables converted into homes (4) • Cook’s protective garment Older brother of Moses (5) • Part of a church Risk-taker (7) • Precipitation Profit (4) Process food in the stomach Strip (of clothes) (6) Bomb hole Wooden containers (6) 20 Large quantity Planet (4) 22 Flexible, adaptable — money, credit cards, eg (7) • 24 Aroma Magical incantation (5) • 26 Earnest request Jumping insect (4) • 27 Height Way of thinking (8) • 28 Of the immediate past Polite and respectable (6) • 29 The —, rock group fronted by Morrissey Forge (6) 1 4 7 9 11 12 13 15 17

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Each clue leads to two answers which differ from each other by one letter. You must decide which is the correct one. For example, the two possible answers to 1A are BICKER and WICKER — the answer to 1D will reveal which one is correct. Solutions in Monday’s Daily Record

Doorman Jumped up and down (7) African river Snaking party dance (5) • Drive away evil spirits Physical activity (8) • Computer information Early 20th-century art movement (4) • Spanish term of address for a man Singing voice (5) • Sticky plant substance Take (an exam) again (5) • Wet behind the —, inexperienced Star —, iconic science fiction film series (4) • Establish by law Precise (5) • Living entity Keyboard instrument musician (8) • Prickly wild yellow shrub John Thaw’s TV detective (5) • Breeding colony of large black birds Garden for alpine plants (7) • 19 Tripped over At capacity (4) • 20 Managed Sulked, brooded (5) • 21 Degree of colour Shovel (5) • 23 Hard outer part of bread Consign for care (5) • 25 Endure Speedy (4) 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 14 16 18