DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Earlier ones settled in the country (6,5)
9 How sniper changed possession (9)
10 Old boot added kiss as beauty treatment (5) 11 Delight in docking boy and dog (3,2) 12 Impecunious employee tries a little writing (9) 13 Loathed covering dry ingredients with water (8) 15 Practically talk over field event (6)
18 Decline to give umpire service (6)
19 Beat sheep to rumble seat (8)
22 Limit to Jewish settlement set in parts of the Holy Land (9)
24 Flip through consumption without a murmur (5)
26 Assistant made into expert with dispatch (5) 27 Ray diffused behind closet and desk (9) 28 Become hostile to those who make a profit by the street (4,7)
DOWN
1 Play on words American raised at dawn (3,2)
2 Poles, for example, stuffed up one’s ear (9)
3 Went back over butchered hare and cast off hair (8) 4 Favourite drink to follow (6)
5 Absorb itinerary when focussed on the path to be travelled (5)
6 Mesmerises with appearances (9)
7 Poor actor holding can up for money (6)
8 Departure from wearing tuxedos without the shirt (6) 14 Agent removing leaves daring to cover centrefold (9)
16 Hotel accepted wager on minute in the middle (2-7) 17 Orange County capital in a mess following farewell (8) 18 Once again show counter holding arrowhead (6) 20 Obey Mr Wrong at an early stage (6)
21 Unhealthy air of the older Mrs Farrow? (6)
23 Terse exchange of information (5)
25 Put an arrangement out of place (5)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Arousal (11)
9 Newspaper owner (9) 10 Sends in the mail (5) 11 The Marriage of Figaro, for example (5)
12 Subsidiary associate (9) 13 Member of the Church of England (8)
15 Tap fitted to a cask (6) 18 Scandinavian nation (6) 19 Unsolicited advertising material (4,4) 22 Professional cheat at poker (4,5)
24 St Peter’s original name (5)
26 Indian city (5) 27 Scandinavian language (9)
28 Secret meeting (11)
DOWN
1 Fencing blade (5) 2 Parrot-like, echoic (9) 3 Sudden violent change (8) 4 Aimlessly floating (6) 5 Urge into action (5) 6 Sentimental longing for the past (9)
7 Temporary inability to breathe (6)
8 Aver, affirm (6) 14 Underground fighter (9) 16 Native of Karachi or Lahore (9)
17 Court summons (8) 18 Withdraw from a federation (6)
20 Madness (6) 21 Nominating (6)
23 Civil proceedings (5) 25 Fielding position in cricket (3-2)