DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Blows on the neck after giving bunny drinks at a party? (6,7)

10 Shops for stew or mum’s pie (9)

11 Little accompaniment for cartoons (5)

12 Hard core brings up deficit (7)

13 Clean as whistle in the end, neglecting pit and coal face (7)

14 Kicking the bucket and putting sticky end in the dent (5)

16 Reckless speed, reckless speed! (9)

18 Lots of nerve and team pride? (9)

21 Not a sausage is eaten for starters after twelve (2,3)

23 Distributes parcels for a tout (7)

25 Heat scale to slice off American (7)

27 I confess hearing is a piece of cake (5)

28 Doctors made alarm spread (9)

29 Dorothy sits by the beach and breaks units of code (4,3,6)

DOWN

2 No praises offset such slander (9)

3 Polish up on questionnaire about Islamic habit (5)

4 Kennedy kept the USSR regime in a bind (7) 5 Removes sun cream and swallows it! (7)

6 Clean home suiting such a fickle person (9)

7 Poet brought up in an unfinished lavatory (5) 8 Heard dispute about large trumpet (6)

9 Secure release? (6) 15 Islands girl created a gap overseas (9)

17 Recoil from a crowd turning in a terrorist’s head (9)

18 Go seconds on drink and talk (6)

19 Well-developed arms on a sculler (7)

20 Tied up dog in the kennel? (7)

22 See air letters becoming a little lighter (6)

24 Aim to split up and leave friend (5)

26 Heavy metal’s electric cords (5)