DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Fraterniser in wartime bar too hot under the collar (12) 10 Average, even major, upstart? (7)
11 King ordered Merlin into Russian stronghold (7) 12 Little chance of freak on LSD grasping divinity (4,4) 13 Nepali culture in the mountains (6)
15 Take a deep breath of air quietly (4)
16 Well-known in reference to company design production (10)
19 A quiet pair seduce young worker (10)
21 Short eastern picture might be western (4) 24 Origin of sun lotion was a hoot (6)
25 Love is gran becoming married to any old creature (8)
27 While subject to rent (7) 28 Suit sea monster in question (2,5)
29 Become a little scared to receive the signal to finish? (3,3,4,2)
DOWN
2 King of the fairies emerged from Borneo (6) 3 Milky coffee held under sections of a public washroom? (10)
4 Take odds that blackleg will go hard in the sun (4) 5 Wine river that is gin cocktail (8)
6 Agrees with far-fetched unending falsehoods (7) 7 Extent of unrestrained anger (5)
8 Defence of game soldier in far ends of America (8) 9 Burns underwear and goes around nude, oddly enough (6)
14 Drive express train? Sure thing! (3,7)
17 Half-decent coal last month (8)
18 Raven had settled on the porch (8)
20 Hobby overturned upright spades, for one (7) 22 Father pokes his nose into shirt (6)
23 Injection reduced virus from tropical bird (6) 24 Confessed to catching tail end of street talk (5) 26 Start bloody squabble with a bump on the head (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Supremacy (12)
10 Scold, abuse (7)
11 In the direction of (7) 12 Courteous behaviour (8) 13 Serious crime (6) 15 Ridge of coral near the ocean surface (4) 16 Traveller seeking free rides (10)
19 Person shirking duty by feigning illness (10) 21 Religious image of the Orthodox Church (4) 24 Shillyshally (6) 25 Expecting too much (8) 27 Former Ethiopian province, now an independent nation (7) 28 Attack with artillery (7) 29 Concurrent, synchronous (12)
DOWN
2 40th president of the US (6)
3 Dogged, persistent (10) 4 Unable to speak (4) 5 Indian capital (3,5)
6 East Anglian county (7) 7 Literary composition (5) 8 Guitar pick (8)
9 Cricket official (6)
14 Easily reached (10) 17 Defector, turncoat (8) 18 Essential to the whole (8) 20 Alkali metal used in batteries (7)
22 Culmination (6)
23 Loose brightly-coloured Hawaiian dress (3-3)
24 Put on clothes (5) 26 Tibetan priest (4)