DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Portraying bad manners of naval invaders (8,5) 10 Lacking expression for defunct prospecting tool (7) 11 Present allure with some effort (7)
12 Still under suspicion to make relative a communist (9)
13 Deposits are in credit for invalid worker (5)
14 Bound to state belief (7) 16 Little one has eaten no mush (7)
18 Knife wounded young woman (7)
20 On condition that outside conditions are reported (7)
22 World heartbreak (5) 24 One limiting what is in plentiful supply (9)
26 Take sides in a stack on horseback (7)
27 Loud lot ran out at the head (7)
28 Be a party to gain entrance, above the law (3,2,2,3,3)
DOWN
2 A con fiddled score as partial payment (2,7) 3 Money order from Peru and Ecuador’s capital (5) 4 Eroding parts of what’s left behind (7)
5 Cheer up count in depression (7)
6 Vegetable culture I find hard to swallow (9)
7 Watch row about Frenchman (5)
8 Put in order at commercial fair (6)
9 Suffer hunger since disrupted harvest has not begun (6)
15 Grub that eight spat out (9)
17 He is, in the Athenian style, denying God (9) 18 Running race outside may be a bit rich! (6)
19 Heel to work on as a tailor, we hear (2-3-2) 20 Press one’s suit flat, extracting lanolin (4,3) 21 Royal we finally amuse (6) 23 Get up bend in showerhead (5)
25 Bill grasping overhead rope (5)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Well-known person (9,4) 10 Raising (7)
11 Rod-shaped bacteria (7) 12 Symbolise (9)
13 Baked meat (5) 14 Disable (7)
16 Organise anew after a setback (7)
18 Machines that convert energy into mechanical work (7)
20 Spectre, apparition (7) 22 Single piece of information (5)
24 Roman officer (9) 26 Dreamlike, bizarre (7) 27 Whole number (7) 28 Iridescent inner layer of an oyster shell (6-2-5)
DOWN
2 Descendants (9)
3 Steps over a fence (5) 4 Sanitation, cleanliness (7) 5 Edible crustacean (7) 6 Central American country (9)
7 Mediterranean island nation (5)
8 Ecclesiastic (6)
9 Main tent of a circus (3,3) 15 Cambodian capital (5,4) 17 Canoe with parallel hulls (9)
18 Having the greatest age (6)
19 Laic, worldly (7)
20 Pope (7)
21 Repeated phrase used in meditation (6) 23 Supercharger (5) 25 Loosen knots (5)