DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Operation to change trim set of visual professional (11) 9 Deathly pale to be playing chicken (5)
10 Novel retracted as bloke becomes a paper seller (9) 11 Widespread around the middle of the month (4) 12 No maternal relations are just for show (10)
14 Reveals relative cut back trees (8)
16 Naughty tot tucked into bread with mushroom (6) 18 A metropolis keeping university in intelligence (6) 19 Poor diet’s gobbled up, many thanks to lack of relish (8)
22 Blankets may be the cold’s undoing (10) 23 Back water carrier to cover some ground (4) 26 Perhaps, those who reverse the work of dockers and traders (9)
27 Love game played in the last of the series (5) 28 Swindle made low end slowly spread the wealth (7,4)
DOWN
1 Earth is hot in its molten core (5)
2 Crank up a fish (4)
3 Mark and prepare ground for magical plant (8)
4 Abort convention that includes the Western attachment to the car (3,3) 5 I reconsidered and agree with the defective (10) 6 Model fitfully hesitates after I leave America (3,6) 7 New album about current surfboard (6)
8 Appropriate to let son off (6)
13 Lion litter wasted food (10)
15 Crowned head surprisingly up-to-date with change of government (4,5) 17 Parasites seen bothering publican (8)
18 Colour of gold and fire? (6)
20 Doctors see man for medical procedures (6) 21 Run in the raw and run into some meat (6) 24 Washed the French in the lavatory (5) 25 Conservative Party doubled up (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Ingratiating, toadyish (11) 9 The animal life of a region (5)
10 Consequences of a disaster (9)
11 Today’s Persia (4) 12 Longest side of a rightangled triangle (10) 14 Department store (8) 16 Delight gratify (6)
18 326 light years (6) 19 Queen’s daughter (8) 22 Reductions in sentences (10)
23 Sicilian volcano (4) 26 Unremitting (9)
27 Thin pancake (5) 28 Clumsiness, gaucherie (11)
DOWN
1 Underwater breathing equipment (5)
2 Fossil fuel (4)
3 Aquatic monotreme (8) 4 Writer (6)
5 Pasta round filled with meat and cheese (10)
6 Clot, curdle (9) 7 Commercial building (6) 8 Breathe raspingly (6) 13 Partial fracture of a bone (10)
15 Uncontrollable desire to start fires (9)
17 Inflexible, rigid (8) 18 Illegal use of copyrighted work (6)
20 Desexed a female animal (6)
21 Lower leg bone (6) 24 Braid of hair (5)
25 Mark behind which a darts player must stand (4)