DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS CRYPTIC

1 Just light-headed with shocking (6)

5 Routine to curb hothead with the cane (6)

10 Outrage to be holding torn sari for assessment (9) 11 Medicine bottle retained recipe for some sort of infection (5)

12 Sovereign remedy to lie in state without one cross monarch (6)

13 Bring up remainder and run them in again (8) 15 Exhaustion makes overweight individual vaguely thinner (7)

16 Walk after brother into prickly shrub (7) 18 Supporting story of injured sea bird (7) 20 Single worst head start in language? (7) 22 Stand by to order brief closure (8)

24 Researcher not working inside the box? (6) 26 Without it, chianti ruins the tableware (5)

27 Drop main characters among the chosen few (9) 28 Stretches shirt front and shades (6)

29 Account book border divides left and right (6)

DOWN

2 Installed drapes after trimming and cutting (9) 3 Toss about a metre on fire (7)

4 and 25-down Final testament to the fabric of Lousiana? (4,4)

5 Relive best parts of a vegetable (10)

6 Avert an accident in watering hole (7)

7 Turn of midwives to interrupt treatment (5) 8 Cash in and produce a secure male animal (4,1,4,4) 9 The loch’s awful fury is kept in the closet (7,6) 14 Returned bloody lookalike’s guns (10) 17 Short work for a lawyer, and how to carry it off? (9) 19 Country genius took up computing (7)

21 Took delight in glider flight around storm centre (7)

23 Stout holding in the weak (5)

25 See 4-down