DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Disturbing case to echo in flight (8)

5 In favour of holding up front through Empty Quarter (6)

10 Wind up dinner service for starters (5)

11 Mozart’s third one fanned drunk with litre of wine (9) 12 Items go astray from vanity (7)

13 Some British isles or islands around the north (7) 14 Area between flights and the competition on the aerodrome? (7,5)

19 Remove unsound stages in cases of excessive stress (12)

22 Designed replica splint (7)

24 Revised versions of every description (7)

25 Nero fiddled with mission when asked (2,7) 26 Wasted euros on the Libertines (5) 27 Waterlogged turf lair (6) 28 Extremely tawdry and disturbing aspect to pigeonhole (8)

DOWN

1 There’s misprints in this book (6)

2 Prisoner retaining some light colour (6)

3 Found a decrepit invalid (9)

4 Muslim ruler of main features around Zanzibar’s capital (5)

6 Australian boat in the American mountains (5) 7 Saviour of English leaders immersed in bloody French drink (8)

8 Cheek to conceal complaints about decline (8) 9 One moans in distress from lack of sleep (8)

15 One returned to deeper structure (8)

16 Fever afflicting Irish form of modern poetry (4,5) 17 Traverse Portuguese India in a bad mood (2,6) 18 Blue-blooded waterhole with the sound of dosh (4-4) 20 Streetcar rounding bend with a terrible strain (6)

21 Lift pace of computing to look after animals (3,3) 23 Equip doctors to put one’s nose out of joint (5) 24 Strain to get shirt into tidy state (5)