DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Chip barnacles off police unit (7,6) 10 Just beat single thong, ill-fitting and blistering (6,3) 11 Glare malignantly, as befits a queen (5) 12 Crooked line on the map of Africa? (4) 13 A pointer of trouble in an instrument (10) 15 Free pet canal of afterbirth (8) 17 Soldiers capture deserter on the house (6) 19 Misty conditions came close to hinder a golfer (6) 20 Most athletic supporter’s cap thrown out by cricket match (8) 23 Partly undressed figure hides label (10) 24 Thought to have Mideast contract (4) 27 A clan gathering on waterway (5) 28 Fettucini dish might just scrape in (3,2,4) 29 Rug flopping disastrously through systematic shelling (6,7)

DOWN

2 Young dog with one little student (5) 3 Is unable to use jargon (4) 4 Unbelievers suspect his state (8) 5 Youth passed around brown plants (6) 6 Doctors are furious to be yielding gold (10) 7 Nail in the coffin after failing triage, etc (9) 8 Pioneer led out from unpeopled parts (4,2) 9 Everybody rambling, yes, even in the backstreets (6) 14 Become flustered at one way for a cat to enter (3,2,1,4) 16 Pit in the core of Adriatic country, as it was (9) 18 Heel and toe tilts precariously (8) 19 Lure away and strangle heartless Italian dictator (6) 21 Poor valet retaining the right to progress (6) 22 Odd being caught attending lion, for example (3,3) 25 Think worthy of the Scandinavian sound (5) 26 Raised objections to remains of ticket (4)