DOUBLE TROUBLE

ACROSS

1 ___ Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia’s autobiography (5) 4 Do (7) 8 Pale orange (7) 9 Mont ___, mountain in the Alps (5) 10 Leaving point (4) 11 Crash into (3) 12 ___ of the Century, 1970s TV quiz show (4) 15 Addicted (6) 16 Tom Hanks mermaid film (6) 19 ___ of the Valkyries, Wagner piece (4) 21 Card game (3) 22 Augury (4) 26 Girl in The Water-Babies (5) 27 Best-ever performances (7) 28 Managed (a situation) (7) 29 ___ Bell, Emily Brontë’s pen-name (5)

ACROSS DOWN

1 Be merciful towards (5) 2 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film (7) 3 Audacity (4) 1 Number of Disney dwarfs (5) 4 Act in front of an audience (7) 8 Fruit like a small peach (7) 9 French for ‘white’ (5) 10 Departure door (4) 11 Male sheep, symbol of Aries (3)

12 Cut-price event (4) 15 Curved down like an eagle’s beak (6) 16 Cause liquid to fly about (6) 19 Go on a bicycle (4) 21 Model of car made by Fiat (3) 22 Sign of a future event (4) 26 ___ Goulding, Lights singer (5) 27 Music discs before CDs (7) 28 Touched or treated (7) 29 ___ Island, former immigration point in New York harbour (5)

DOWN

1 Extra, left over (5) 2 Dizziness from heights (7) 3 Giraffe’s long feature (4) 4 Coal worker (6) 5 Red gemstone (4) 6 City in Nebraska (5)

4 Inventor of a shorthand system (6) 5 2007 hit for the Kaiser Chiefs (4) 6 One of the D-Day landing beaches (5) 7 11th-century Scottish king (7) 13 US spelling contest (3) 14 Belgian Grand Prix circuit (3) 15 North Wales castle (7) 17 Fleet commander (7) 18 Fletcher’s daughter in Porridge, played by Patricia Brake (6) 20 Hippie-like rabbit in The Magic Roundabout (5) 23 Pries (5) 24 Animal feed (4) 25 God’s Little ___, Erskine Caldwell novel (4) 7 ‘The Scottish play’ (7) 13 Buzzing insect (3) 14 Health resort (3) 15 Men of ___, Welsh song (7) 17 Red ___, butterfly (7) 18 ___ Bergman, Casablanca actress (6)

20 Bob ___, folk/ rock star (5) 23 Smelling organs (5) 24 Breakfast, lunch or dinner (4) 25 Measure of land area (4)