DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Take another look at the jumping in the field of skating (7)

5 Party to secret hearing under cover of scrumpy? (7) 9 About half the caricature is untrue (5)

10 Saw that making nest is central to being married (9) 11 Quiet stream engulfing record and power source (5,5)

12 Pakistani speech on short route between Uzbek capitals (4)

14 Japanese general with musket removed Tokyo’s leader (6)

15 Hard-working Timorese chap? (8)

17 Being the base rate for entry into medicine (8) 18 Record player’s arm and swollen head after lusty hitting (6)

21 Sing out warning (4) 22 The first telephonist says climate is the leader (10) 24 Add details to be a real mishmash (9)

25 Pair given due liberty by old maid (5)

26 Ship worker spreading waste beside road (7) 27 Fullness made it easy to go outside the square (7)

DOWN

1 Precise formulas? (7)

2 Be appalled by posterity’s efforts to surrender your accent (4,2,4,5)

3 Found wanting one and roughly correspond with it (10)

4 Hear bully and draw flatter (6)

5 Unsettled island at Rhine crossing (2,3,3)

6 Leave fur behind shelter (4)

7 Speaker’s management problem may be found in a red-light district (10,5)

8 Make over but spoil stronghold (7)

13 Be just what’s needed to beat some acne (3,3,4) 16 Drawing on available part of the workforce (8) 17 Money turns half Sweden nuts (7)

19 Increase in force at the end of military operation (7) 20 Turns antisocial, terse and short (6)

23 Audio tape uncovered a hint (4)