DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Select an actor to play a sleuth and make it gloomy (4,1,6)
9 Vessel in every other canoe ritual (5)
10 Crook back created trauma, as is the rule for love (4,5)
11 Strip of a new wife to remove old tissue (7) 12 Book store (7)
13 Little person halfway through difficult return (6) 15 Graphite and phosphorous applied to backache (8)
19 Monstrous failure to break up fossil fuel (8) 20 Drops a line around corners (6)
22 Limp as young bull turned on Spanish champion (7)
24 Drag back into the seat of a familiar customer (7) 26 Quickly turn into an informal collection (4,5) 27 Middleman provided source of tequila (5) 28 Falling well below without a stitch of clothing (3,1,5,2)
DOWN
1 Chocolate powder around mug (5)
2 Lowly condition of supply ship beneath the waves (9) 3 Crank letter about leggy charm? (6)
4 Autonomy by order of a baseball plate? (4,4) 5 Drenches the earth during sleep (5)
6 Cataract forms after breaching defences (9) 7 Dream alternates between terror and plague (8) 8 Ordered rotten eggs at the start (4)
14 Animal tad different from a dog (9)
16 Dissertation on new model phonogram (9)
17 Saw off baffled beginners who worked for another (8) 18 Along with pressure in the bulge of tyre inflator (4,4)
21 Chalk up to direct broadcast (6)
22 Loud nocturnal bird like a chicken (4)
23 Carry about a stone in weight? (5)
25 Pick up tip about ringleader (5)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Brotherhood, companionship (11) 9 Injunction (5)
10 Soviet minister (9)
11 Small food fish (7) 12 Continuous (7)
13 Unit of electric current (6) 15 Reflex spasm of the respiratory muscles (8) 19 Scratch, scrape (8) 20 Castrated male sheep (6) 22 With subtle variations (7) 24 Wrangled over the price (7)
26 Relating to childbirth (9) 27 Slightly wet (5) 28 Sensitive to criticism, touchy (4-7)
DOWN
1 Drink brewed from apple juice (5)
2 Carnival held on Shrove Tuesday (5,4)
3 Salad plant (6)
4 Mental deterioration (8) 5 Period on the throne (5) 6 Soft mark, sucker (slang) (4,5)
7 Northern neighbour of South Africa (8)
8 Fall (4)
14 Lasting (9)
16 Man of the cloth (9) 17 Genetic inheritance (8) 18 Central American country (8)
21 Hot pepper (6)
22 Back of the neck (4) 23 Resort island near Naples (5)
25 Scottish estate owner (5)