DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Tear off after taxi in night spot (7)
5 Ruler of half-moon in a month (7)
9 Alto nervously holding note on high (5)
10 Country club defaulted on aid (9)
11 Shaggy put out loudest compilation (7)
12 Estate agent renovates lot in the back (7)
13 Seasonal fare inflamed irritable derrière (3,5,4) 18 Programmes implement a higher footing for women? (8,4)
21 Orders anything but frozen desserts (7)
23 Sausage cut in the shape of a nob (7)
24 Wildlife let go to seed (3,6) 25 In short, cutting no mean figure in the garden (5)
26 Put at a loss by a minus sign? (7)
27 Fullness of time went into making it easy (7)
DOWN
1 State put to flight from continent (6)
2 Black-headed blackguard with an Irish accent (6) 3 Quickly tell if a tail of a snake turned (6,3)
4 Not quite neat enough to go outside, I’m afraid (5) 5 Strands outside café without half the biscuits (9)
6 Help an uppity girl (5)
7 Call faithful to hold water? (4,4)
8 Reads the pattern for car accessory (8)
14 Has lyrics rewritten for Cocoon (9)
15 Draw attention to plot concocted within vision (9) 16 Work with panel beating on new kind of office design (4,4) 17 Criticise article about Roman temple (8)
19 Brush off groin injury and bounce back (6)
20 Security of one iron in a pig’s home (6)
22 Crop tail end and inch along (5)
23 Second rate, slow moving game? (5)
Friday’s solutions:
Across: 1 Chop and change. 10 Per diem. 11 Dustbin. 12 Comma. 13 Nanometre. 14 Scandal. 16 Address. 18 Satires. 20 Magenta. 22 Uppercuts. 24 Sitar. 26 Residue. 27 A bit off. 28 Hot on the heels.
Down: 2 Harem. 3 Philander. 4 Nominal. 5 Cadenza. 6 Assam. 7 Go-between. 8 Apices. 9 Infers. 15 Antipasto. 17 Digestive. 18 Scurry. 19 Student. 20 Mistake. 21 Adrift. 23 Rodeo. 25 Troll.
QUICK ACROSS
1 Breach of etiquette (4,3) 5 Atom’s core (7)
9 Follow as a consequence (5) 10 African-American religious song (9)
11 Roughly, more or less (7) 12 Natural environment (7) 13 Transform (12)
18 Stubbornly disobedient (12) 21 Thin varnish (7)
23 The language of Barcelona (7)
24 Ent’racte (9)
25 Instruction (5)
26 Convert into code (7) 27 Baby’s room (7)
DOWN
1 Weak, frail (6)
2 Result, outcome (6)
3 In stages, little by little (9) 4 Effeminate man (5)
5 Person living next door (9) 6 Scale (5)
7 Sudden outburst (8)
8 Spit out in an explosive manner (8)
14 1415 battle, a decisive English victory over the French (9) 15 Variety of red wine grape (5,4)
16 Pure, uncorrupted (8) 17 Composed of many different styles (8)
19 Solemn promise (6)
20 Pep, vitality (6)
22 Truck (5)
23 Unsoiled (5)
Friday’s solutions:
Across: 1 Tongue twister. 10 Decibel. 11 Avocado. 12 Curse. 13 Scheduled. 14 Species. 16 Righten. 18 Pyrrhic. 20 Giblets. 22 Upholster. 24 Ashes. 26 Crooner. 27 Extrude. 28 Ambidexterity.
Down: 2 Oscar. 3 Gibberish. 4 Enlists. 5 Weather. 6 Scold. 7 Epaulette. 8 Edicts. 9 Cordon. 15 Earthworm. 17 Gibraltar. 18 Paunch. 19 Coterie. 20 Garment. 21 System. 23 Lanai. 25 Haunt.