Double Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 1 Fast forward past company emblem and leave the system (3,3) 5 Heavily embossed or regressive nut (6) 10 Second short coffee (5) 11 Turn waste carrier into surgical equipment (9) 12 Making a spectacle of slipping cogs in wash (10) 13 Lucky number, but not very distinguished (4) 15 Stir pap with fluency and pour oil on troubled waters (7) 17 Sausage casing dried out when tied up (7) 18 Capital fellow with a third of Central American land (7) 20 Drink tea with almost perfect happiness (7) 22 Webster's first new spelling of Hanoi was left out in the end (4) 23 Make public head get a load of glum or unhappy results (10) 26 Jump some sort of tape in schoolyard game (9) 27 Return before long and ultimately dissolve marriage (5) 28 Extremely humane deed designed to be taken to heart (6) 29 Beam about regular artiste being one in a million (6) DOWN 2 Beat duo to dance (5) 3 Rook finished attack (10) 4 Surrounded by the enemy, seer failed to predict his fate (7) 5 Staring dismally at broadcast figures (7) 6 Result of punching and blighter boxing his head (4) 7 See seat with, say, Siamese Herald in tatters (9) 8 Unfortunately, Egyptian spirit was in Seward's icebox (6) 9 Paid to keep the old Germanic character in trim (6) 14 Canoe lashed onto sleeve of cruise ship (5,5) 16 Foreign pen pal tucked into tart fruit (9) 18 A much maligned case of new leader for an old Chinese dynasty (6) 19 After a time odd bits of tread are filled with gas (7) 20 Pitch tents with horror, being split over scent of liniment (7) 21 Country newspaper boss appearing in newsreels (6) 24 Current spectacles in the back of the boat (5) 25 Swimmer was blue after catching cold (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS 1 Disinter (6) 5 Slat in a door or window (6) 10 Dense, firm (5) 11 Four-sided plane figure (9) 12 Penitent (10) 13 Treaty, agreement (4) 15 Exercise session (7) 17 Empathy, affinity (7) 18 Intellectual, highbrow (7) 20 Enclosed drain beneath a road (7) 22 Chilly (4) 23 Heavy downpour (10) 26 Implement for tossing hay (9) 27 Join together (5) 28 Three-legged stand (6) 29 Conclusion (6) DOWN 2 Plant tissue that conducts water from the roots (5) 3 Clandestine, surreptitious (10) 4 Serious, sincere (7) 5 Varnish (7) 6 American state settled by Mormons (4) 7 Long, complicated procedure (9) 8 Account holding funds pending the completion of a transaction (6) 9 Group of six (6) 14 Enthralled, entranced (10) 16 Controlling device (9) 18 Other than (6) 19 Shoulder muscle (7) 20 Laugh quietly (7) 21 Tie up (6) 24 Have sovereign power (5) 25 Retail outlet (4)