DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS CRYPTIC

1 Emperor combined Sheila with empty-headed girl (5,8) 10 Direction to head off to the frontier (5)

11 Commercial vehicle gate crashes benefit (9) 12 European with own gear in tatters (9)

13 Have no taste for wild boar, outside the hogshead (5)

14 Company lays off workers and talks them into going (6) 16 One reeks after wasting fuel (8)

18 Some dinner might be in jeopardy in the shopping centre (8)

20 Light green tinge all around island (6)

23 Some qualifications are held to be the same (5) 24 Tanneries operating with serious intent (2,7) 27 Credit Islam in reforming crooks (9)

28 Easy pickings to extract computing from Newton’s discovery (5)

29 Composer to forestall renovations of cramped accommodation (8,5)

DOWN

2 State as well as roar order (7)

3 Jumbo rage seethed beneath learner (5)

4 Lack of blood flow cost a sister’s heart (6)

5 Toilet closer in fragrance to a flower (8)

6 Gains work with expanded chorus (9)

7 Scott’s work foundered on a hive (7)

8 Lake with nothing in the side (4)

9 Stay riper when processed the day before (8)

14 Force to hold 2000 in exchange (8)

15 Elaborate clanger is dropped inside dress hem (9)

17 Spent a pound and left as a whole (3,2,3)

19 Taken from bauxite unit during manual operations (7) 21 A bit off when fashionable chopper is turned up by court (7)

22 Hot spring turns grey around one quarter (6) 25 Rightful to take on middle kingdom, as befits a queen (5)

26 Small dogs given to hollow yelps (4)