DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Selling out a tour to go looking for bargains (8,6) 9 Carried on with show, poor dupe (5,2)
10 Succeed in peeling fruits and mixing with speed (7) 11 Mickey missed second look of disapproval (4)
12 For example, wholemeal hides product that bore fruit (10)
14 Yak with heavy weight following Jewish leader (6,2)
15 Snake with a curious patina (6)
18 Hit by small wagon (6) 19 Motliest sort of space for broadcasting (4,4) 21 Instigator of editorial on the Wagnerian cycle? (4-6)
23 Girl returned to eat (4) 26 Bottled up part of a foot and neck without a head (2,5)
27 Turn out in favour of Mussolini (7)
28 Complete agreement in suit as well as objects (6,3,5)
DOWN
1 Fit in jacuzzi with sergeant major (5)
2 Unconscious and less sensitive to appear commoner (9)
3 Packs out bachelor quarters (4)
4 French leader completed lap on time (8)
5 Go over account with hawker (3,3)
6 Proceeded from love doctor in hot date (10) 7 Beauty is to come out of hypnotism transformed (5) 8 Intelligence kept hound solving murder mystery (8) 13 Terror bridging one flaky period in accounts (6,4) 14 The others shower to keep down (8)
16 Mate an offspring which is one of five in a litter (9) 17 Penalises wordplay if too subtle (4-4)
20 Chest swathed in father’s coats (6)
22 Good case for hiding his head in the corner (5) 24 Doctor given examples of alcoholic waste (5) 25 Express disapproval at mass expansion (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Shipwrecked hero of Defoe’s novel (8,6)
9 Native of Barcelona (7) 10 Furtiveness (7) 11 Command of the town cryer (4)
12 Unwanted rock that covers mineral deposits (10) 14 Highway robbery (8) 15 Wonder (6)
18 Canny (6)
19 Goose liver pâté (4,4) 21 Fried meat-filled tortillas (10)
23 Run away (4)
26 Terse (7)
27 Islands of the South Pacific (7)
28 Unhappiness (14)
DOWN
1 Front side of a printed sheet of paper (5)
2 Type of squash or pumpkin (9)
3 Cairo’s river (4)
4 Animal that eats both meat and plants (8) 5 Cuban dictator (6) 6 Ignorant; illiterate (10) 7 Eyed lustfully (5) 8 Roofing material (8) 13 Melodramatic (10) 14 Boldly, shamelessly (8) 16 Infectiousness (9)
17 In a state of deep unconsciousness (8) 20 High-kicking French music hall dance (6) 22 Spiny succulents (5) 24 Bring into law (5) 25 Animal skin (4)