DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
1 Incited a turning point (8)
5 Cool tart after peeling apples (6)
10 Throwing stone at start of attack (5)
11 Secures at different parts of garden tool (9)
12 Battle out later in court (8)
13 Aspiration to avoid rains in constructing terrace (5)
15 We hear of a middling business (6)
16 Congregation care desperately about blood bath (8)
19 Measured up when some plans were drawn (8)
21 Gamble on overcoming misfortune and give quarter (6)
24 Lord’s turn to follow the lead of the Commons and grovel (5)
26 Drinking to the health of Browning? (8)
28 Nine volts twitching in the hands of recievers (9)
29 Break out from prison, heading into true freedom (5)
30 Make a speech about last of the men to be decorated (6)
31 Keep up, keep back and keep for later (8)
DOWN
1 Smooth and hard (4)
2 Female side of the worforce supported raising identification (7)
3 Girl running in the race (9)
4 Scrap raised some of apparel’s sutures (6)
6 Slackening in output eliminated upturn (5)
7 Acerbic account is brought up and is cut off (7)
8 Throw out single pigpen in case of telling porkies (10)
9 Academic related to the sun, including the origins of central heating (7)
14 Monarch is a free spirit (10)
17 Don’t move as much when lacking motivation (9)
18 Streetwalker arranged to leave water out for bird (7)
20 Tramples over new member of the family (7)
22 Lassitude or a lung disorder (7)
23 Actors treated with medicinal oil (6)
25 Experimental program first seen in story line (5)
27 A bit of nasty exudation from infection (4)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Pancake (8)
5 Newspaper chief (6)
10 Brass or steel (5)
11 Accuracy (9)
12 Reclaimed for further use (8)
13 Get down on all fours (5)
15 Wry, sarcastic (6)
16 Type of sweep stakes (8)
19 Leaflet (8)
21 Attack with machine guns from the air (6)
24 Machine for turning wood (5)
26 Gazelle or springbok (8)
28 Mating behaviour (9)
29 Forest clearing (5)
30 Scope for movement (6)
31 Supporter, follower (8)
DOWN
1 Celebrity, renown (4)
2 Architectural style of the 1920s and 1930s (3,4)
3 Free-swimming animal with tentacles (9)
4 Domed roof (6)
6 Imbibe (5) 7 Three-pronged spear (7)
8 Instigator, firebrand (10)
9 Poker-faced (7)
14 Devilish (10)
17 List of items for sale (9)
18 Respire (7)
20 Push outward (7)
22 Mollify, assuage (7)
23 Dim-witted (6)
25 Additional (5)
27 Mobile phone message (4)