DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Obsession with the time before invasion (13)

10 Boost relative to keep reset gem (7)

11 Weigh heavily on the best topless papers (7)

12 Austere lot put off by languorous types (5,5) 13 Test results of printer’s direction (4)

15 Order fool to return cheap stuff (6)

17 One lord’s version of Viking speech (3,5) 19 Muscle an antagonising American administration? (5,3)

20 Dance, saying it’s a puzzle (6)

23 Dart left in suit (4) 24 Delicate adjustment to excellent new tin gun (4-6) 27 Tearing apart thankless sort (7)

28 Recital rehashed story in the papers (7) 29 Gentleman’s agreement at the bottom of prestige (13)

DOWN

2 Just on the conservative side (5)

3 Dramatises settled nations (10)

4 Tom and Harry lost rights in China (6)

5 Correctly support, incorrectly rely (8) 6 Surpasses spinners (4) 7 Invalidates voters’ run off (9)

8 Intimate cover for pasty (6) 9 Fly, from the outset, seen inside (6)

14 Out of date, quaint, outmoded (10)

16 Starting to act like the punch in liquor (7,2) 18 Models replicas on splints (8)

19 Not just taking the top from carnival (6)

21 New rag played by composer (6)

22 State made advance after dumping capitalist leader (6)

25 Tin cans stripped by old Peruvians (5)

26 Fair game at the extremes of celebrity (4)