DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Normal wear and tear has canine pads in ruins (5,3,5) 10 In these conditions, I belong in commoner conditions (7)

11 Irrational number taking out a loan on family entertainment centre (7) 12 Foul and forbidding railway terminal (5) 13 Concerned with standing before a reversal of position (5,4)

14 Relationship between Latin and the church (7)

15 A tithe’s inappropriate for a non-church member (7) 17 Shades of cutting cane in the boiling sun (7) 20 Early plans to cover commercial before this time (7) 22 Graduate’s method of advancement? (2,7) 24 Mountains in the Arabian desert (5)

26 Wife of the criminal variety (7)

27 Reflect light of one street in the valley (7)

28 Catch on and come down with flick (3,3,7)

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2 Check on swindle business (7)

3 Crib money wasted before the baby is even born (9) 4 Mean to assert seniority (7)

5 Ambassador failed to complete qualification (7) 6 Change data exchange to keep small change (5) 7 Fascist kind of sign with a zip undone (3-4)

8 and 25-down Twins confess in prison (4,4) 9 Records attempt at needlework (8)

14 Barking mad about cur beginning to return the call (4,4)

16 Medical man in rehab struck off register (9)

18 As well to put one’s stake in slowly (7)

19 Female to keep fever under cover (7)

20 Gases reacting inside main weapon (7)

21 Gold rushes do it right for accountant (7)

23 Spirit of grand hotel owner (5)

25 See 8-down

QUICK ACROSS

1 Signal to finish a motor race (9,4)

10 Split second (7)

11 Sign of the zodiac (7) 12 House of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I (5)

13 Sum total (9)

14 Prize that accumulates until it is won (7)

15 Distrust (7) 17 Surrounding, encompassing (7) 20 Whale fat (7) 22 Pompous; excessive (9) 24 Book of charts (5) 26 Leafy green vegetable (7)

27 Money paid to a former spouse (7)

28 Expensive but useless object (5,8)

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2 Of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect (7)

3 Multiply by four (9) 4 Uproot (7)

5 Flags flown by ships (7) 6 Became ice (5)

7 Mollify, placate (7) 8 Clenched hand (4) 9 Silviculturist (8)

14 Envy (8)

16 Easily sickened (9) 18 Defect, flaw (7) 19 Metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables (7)

20 Wound dressing (7) 21 Inflatable toy (7)

23 Brag (5)

25 In Greek myth, the river of the underworld (4)