DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Religious order voted about union (6)

5 Remains in fights (6) 10 Flesh wounds on the bookcase (5)

11 Minister backing free rein on hand (2,7)

12 Excluding charge for borrowing hobby (7,8) 13 National Front confronted moderate parts of the church (5,4)

16 Lotus eater concentrated on habit (3)

18 You and I following love in arrears (3)

19 Cross its centre at random (9) 22 How one might react to a descendant’s shocking attempt to give up one’s accent? (4,2,4,5) 25 Make a show change into tunes (3,2,4)

26 A half mile to travel with a friend (5)

27 Look through the extremely tiny and poor (6) 28 Church rite used Latin by the yard (6)

DOWN

2 Choose to be shaved, well-groomed, etc (5)

3 Love differs remarkably from one’s partner (8)

4 Hot air excursion above the Earth (5)

5 Demanding another ten join the back of the line (9) 6 More impulsive part of a cooked breakfast (6) 7 Hound is, by itself, pretty attractive (9)

8 Feeling faint outline of eggs in clutches of the wild swan (6)

9 Get hot under the collar after these fashions come back (6)

14 Hypothetical article on erotic adventures (9)

15 No amity is expressed in this state (9)

17 Expecting party leader to be ruling (8)

18 Recorded play not above parody (2,4)

20 Gangsters drunk metho on the beachfront (3,3) 21 Small Russian fighter with no final solution (6)

23 Rest of painters comfort the terminally ill (5) 24 American leader redraws line for foreigner (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Ludicrous descent from the serious to the trite (6) 5 Hungarian horseman (6) 10 Sign up (5) 11 Spontaneously (9) 12 Fraud where the victim’s trust is won by the swindler (10,5)

13 Loathsome (9)

16 Pecan or pistachio (3) 18 Aura (3)

19 Institution for the promotion of learning (9) 22 Enterprise, initiative (15) 25 Advertising campaign (9) 26 Complaint (5)

27 Leave (6)

28 Fashioned (6)

DOWN

2 Part of the runway in front of a hangar (5)

3 Land and other assets to which one has legal title (8) 4 Malice (5)

5 Children’s game (9) 6 Unwrinkled (6) 7 Household device (9) 8 Swordsman (6)

9 Pail (6)

14 Submarine’s viewer (9) 15 Believer in the abolition of government (9)

17 Plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima (5,3)

18 Curt (6)

20 Deceived (6)

21 Domed roof (6)

23 Ready money (5) 24 Banish (5)