DOUBLE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Cat for every fish and cheeky pup (14) 10 Caught goon out with African flower (5)
11 Bring ashore German notes with outstanding features (9)
12 Heavy metal outfits perish with their management (10)
13 Heart of mine has head start (4) 15 State of unease when taking in the velocity of the roads (7)
17 Peace plan or a damp squib? (4,3) 18 Cookhouses in grand little streets (7)
20 Song about chaps in the country (7) 22 Unimaginable quantity of wise men (4)
23 Result of getting too drunk during graduation (7,3)
26 Bend rivet in factual recovery operation (9)
27 Alternately soap up near bath (5) 28 Holds down and provokes a tingling sensation (4,3,7)
DOWN
2 Chicken canape trimmed with dye (5) 3 Taken to court for writing on pretty daughter (10)
4 Joins up disconnected line on streets (7)
5 Unrisen but strangely brighter (7) 6 Poor relief during Palm Sunday (4) 7 Individual swallows one millimetre of tropical fruit (9)
8 Kind of jam to have got on with it (4,3)
9 Scally wag was a danger to Greek shipping (6)
14 Went together with injury and onside foul (10)
16 Instruct stranger in the glen (9) 18 Sweet fall of the eucalypt? (7) 19 Emaciated celebrity with very bleeding heart (7)
20 Top two classes work out free of charge (7)
21 Cast rally around like stars (6) 24 Plant seed of free love all about university (5)
25 Capital equipment takes centre stage (4)
ACROSS
1 Sociability (14)
10 Branches (5)
11 Mafia head (9)
12 Rider of Silver and friend of Tonto (4,6)
13 Extinct flightless bird of Mauritius (4)
15 Stonework (7)
17 Plug for a gun’s muzzle (7) 18 Connoisseur of fine food (7) 20 Canada’s largest city (7) 22 Necessity (4)
23 Tyranny (10)
26 Subcontract to another company (9)
27 Respond to a stimulus (5) 28 Apparatus for cooling a house (3-11)
DOWN
2 Cow’s stomach (5)
3 The art of good eating (10)
4 The latter part of the reign of George III (7)
5 Leftover piece of cloth (7)
6 Mark of an old wound (4) 7 Abyssinian (9)
8 Prime cut of beef (7)
9 Ski race (6)
14 Theatrical entrepreneur (10) 16 Seaman’s waterproof hat (9) 18 Venetian boat (7)
19 Became narrower (7)
20 Violent flood (7)
21 Heavily decorated (6)
24 Mental representation (5)
25 Toy consisting of a spool on a string (2-2) 3 Called to help Avis, in a hole (4,1,5) 8 Patch up and look after the stuff (6) 9 Unable to decide if it’s damaged (4) 10 Generally speaking, when to treat a cavity (2,3,5)
11 ‘Heavens, a letter!’ you say (3)
13 He doesn’t win and there’s a row (4) 14 For a little food and drink, everybody goes inside (7)
15 Be brave enough to challenge (4)
17 Do help to (5)
20 Gathering it’s not the whole of the year (5)
22 Had been seen, I would have said (4) 24 The notice about the green sort of annoyed one (7)
25 Tear and you put a little tuck in it (4) 27 Shouts and gets an answer to ‘Whose?’ (3)
28 Be responsible for only a boring arrangement in it (5,5)
29 Induced to return a garment (4)
30 Mr. Gold will make his home in it (6) 31 Not accepted, it subdued (6,4) 1 Until then, being sentenced to imprisonment would (8)
2 A female in the fighting ring (6)
3 What the predator did, having before day caught a bird (7)
4 I love going round the funny log cabin (5) 5 Bet it’s not the post! (4)
6 How curious one is (8)
7 ‘20’ set about getting something ornamental for the home (8)
12 For those dead keen on music? (4) 14 Withered before, by the sun (4)
16 The Cockney had held we were afraid (4) 17 This rehashed TV programme in it is a great success (5,3)
18 Record the man tries to break (8)
19 Get out of line! (4)
21 Travelled right through in agony (8) 23 Knots undone and holding the key of the prison (7)
25 Take back the gentleman to bed? Rubbish! (6)
26 Uproar over a shot animal (5)
28 Not permitted to hear the group (4)