DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Offering to get lighter for another exchange of insults (8,5) 9 Half your luck, good man developed flu when randy (7) 10 Brown opening to Indian cookery (7) 11 Second onion in photographer’s light (5,4) 12 Erect building on Greek island (5) 13 Extremely deadly guy flipped overhead live wire (6) 14 Rather handy to have square shoulders! (2,6) 17 Turn up his nose at two bears (4,4) 19 Please don’t disturb? Please do disturb! (6) 22 Awkward tones of the early stages (5) 24 Freshens up threewheeler during bombing raid (3,6) 26 Silver ring on the rocks (7) 27 If an act is revolutionary, it’s radical (7) 28 Brush off the panel and win, at all events (5,3,5)
DOWN
1 Maintain and lift American disgrace (7) 2 Rotten hemp at fault but no longer relevant (3,3,3) 3 Powder monkey’s first to follow a cult’s order (6) 4 Journal number to be made acceptable (8) 5 Mental disorder is the main disorder found by head of clinic (5) 6 Novel author with the earth-first movement? (7) 7 Flog a sort of shower and a sort of bath (9) 8 Uncle Fester grasped the symbolism of music (4) 13 Duck almost butchered by foreign officials (9) 15 Ancient Iberia steeped us in Italian culture (9) 16 Express surprise that eggs took crew member one hour (3,3,2) 18 See old boy wait on tables (7) 20 Given out before finally caught by baseballer? (7) 21 Ready to use irrational fear when in the lead (6) 23 To start behind and win the trick (5) 25 Fix in the mind, and the rest flash back (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Sarah Ferguson’s title (7,2,4) 9 Conceal, keep out of sight (7) 10 Liquorice flavouring (7) 11 Governed by bishops (9) 12 Rainforest vine (5) 13 Tropical fruit growing in hands (6) 14 Flattering talk (4-4) 17 Come close (8) 19 Leave high and dry (6) 22 Secluded corners (5) 24 Dry up (9) 26 Put aside, dormant (7) 27 Japanese art of paper folding (7) 28 112 pounds (13)
DOWN
1 Style of speaking (7) 2 Gradual increase in volume (9) 3 Not subject to taxation (6) 4 Male horse (8) 5 Ornamental edging (5) 6 Herb (7) 7 Abducted for ransom (9) 8 Small island (4) 13 Forcibly indoctrinate (9) 15 Making permanent designs on the skin (9) 16 Conventional, commonly approved (8) 18 Essential nutrient, plentiful in meat (7) 20 Determined, unyielding (7) 21 Coax (6) 23 Step (5) 25 Wicked (4)