DOUBLE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
CRYPTIC
1 Merger of us in strife (6)
4 French food dish caters to circuit work (8)
10 Remedied dire range of an explosive thrower (9)
11 Given alms to hold open to purchase (5)
12 Medical profession manage turn with shop (7)
13 Where a holiday may start or a trip be arranged (7)
14 Stooge starting to laugh in Comedy Central (7)
16 Servant turned in during dinner (6)
19 Scrimmage may wear thin after a flying start (6)
21 Scope or freedom of barrel makers (7)
25 Escort blew cocktail supply again (7)
26 Somehow know me to squeeze the right hands (7)
28 Not odd to follow second number (5)
29 Answers blast on presses (9)
30 Step outside next grating (8)
31 Particle of original heredity or DNA make-up (6)
DOWN
1 Bit of a genderless last part (3,3)
2 Guide will reset co-ordinates (5)
3 Speech from Opposition leader over allowance (7)
5 Vein runs in the rump (6)
6 Opposing poetry being written in support of promotion (7)
7 Ignore old decrepit boatman (9)
8 Legendary Swiss legend of gossip (8)
9 Records of Wimbledon titles (7)
15 Man of the hour files letters with state (9)
17 Beasts overturned legislation with tricks (8)
18 Take all of the bath and bunk (7)
20 Trimmed a drooping tip or end off (7)
22 Assumed role involved salesman raising child as leader (7)
23 Hide outside truehearted downhill event (3-3)
24 International body is operating agreement (6)
27 Hoarder of rhythm is erroneous in part (5)
Yesterday’s solutions:
Across: 1 Sandwich. 5 Gushed. 10 Respect. 11 Opining. 12 First. 13 Sideswipe. 14 Limpid. 15 Bulwark. 19 Hangdog. 21 Staple. 25 On the line. 27 Still. 28 Bengali. 29 Bravado. 30 Ormolu. 31 San Diego.
Down: 1 Scrofula. 2 Nostrum. 3 Wreathing. 4 Cutest. 6 Units. 7 Hairier. 8 Dogged. 9 Woodcut. 16 Withstand. 17 Politic. 18 Well-to-do. 20 Antonym. 22 Private. 23 Boo-boo. 24 Serbia. 26 Email.
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Board concealing a curtain rail (6)
4 Sudden, violent expression of emotion (8) 10 Fill again (9)
11 Public house (5)
12 Stage structures and backdrops (7)
13 Formed of thin layers (7)
14 Relating to the sense of touch (7)
16 Help (6)
19 Surprise attack (6)
21 Frank and honest (7)
25 Waste away (7)
26 Set of kettledrums (7)
28 Be of the same mind (5)
29 Insolence (9)
30 Hangs from above (8)
31 Fisherman (6)
DOWN
1 Expire (6)
2 Drop in standards (5)
3 Highest mountain (7)
5 Maintain (6)
6 Nation in the West Indies (7)
7 Capacity to remember (9)
8 Allow, indulge (8)
9 Two-wheeled transport (7)
15 Secretion of sperm whales, used in perfumery (9)
17 Processions of wagons and pack animals (8)
18 Commemorative inscription on a tombstone (7)
20 Highest in power or authority (7)
22 Muslim month of fasting (7)
23 Innumerable (6)
24 Arranged in sequence (6)
27 Make void (5)
Yesterday’s solutions:
Across: 1 Coleslaw. 5 Kansas. 10 Innings. 11 Arrival. 12 Arena. 13 Grandiose. 14 Rancid. 15 Perform. 19 Slander. 21 Potato. 25 Intestine. 27 Purge. 28 Chicago. 29 Chained. 30 Diesel. 31 Alderman.
Down: 1 Chivalry. 2 Lantern. 3 Sensation. 4 Assign. 6 Acrid. 7 Saviour. 8 Silver. 9 Cabaret. 16 Footplate. 17 Benison. 18 Poseidon. 20 Lattice. 22 Acronym. 23 Viscid. 24 Mescal. 26 Scare.