DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
ACROSS 1 Hit or miss or damn the consequences (6)
5 County decided to back return of corporal punishment (6)
10 Green-eyed monster circling round messenger (5) 11 Laid waste to rotten diced meat (9)
12 Hairdresser’s devices may make waves (7)
13 Give the honour to label bonnets inside on return (7) 14 Repulsed storyteller in backstreet shadows (6) 16 More active organ hanging round lounge (8)
19 Seductive clan leader causing damage (8)
21 Push to alter end result (6) 24 Brass farthing at the heart of liberality (7)
25 Wandering Dominican casually dropped in (7)
27 Pay off scores behind time, accepting one pound (9) 28 Some tiny lonely piece (5) 29 Brown turned back within sight of assembly (6) 30 Glasses wrapped in halftorn sponge (6) DOWN 2 Block of small Italian village (5)
3 Battery in teetotal prison room? (3,4)
4 Second course with it (6) 5 Battered as rocks pierced back of helmet (8)
6 Wine and dine the Latin church (7)
7 Found habit less manageable (9) 8 Overwrought cut in ore production (8)
9 Tool works like a calculator, some say (4)
15 Ballerina’s posture on square dance around Lincoln (9)
17 Mum may call up to enter into lease (8)
18 Just starting to be made to each in turn (8)
20 Crazy age to consume unit of liquor (7)
22 Pepper me in pot shot (7) 23 Intangible neural function (6)
24 Swallow whole bar (4) 26 Dealt with disturbance in letter (5)
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ACROSS 1 Sacred beetle of ancient Egypt (6)
5 Buxom (6)
10 Dress up, preen (5) 11 Persist despite adversity (7,2)
12 Vexatious (7)
13 Hotel luggage carrier (7) 14 Kick the ball between an opponent’s legs (6) 16 Wedding ceremony (8) 19 Clearness of mind (8) 21 Treeless Arctic plain (6) 24 Deep red (7)
25 Shiver of excitement (7) 27 Eradicate (9)
28 Narrow opening to the coast (5)
29 Have in mind, propose (6)
30 Difficult, annoying (6) DOWN 2 Young bird (5) 3 Admonish (7)
4 Woven container (6) 5 Beat, thrash (8)
6 Small frying pan (7)
7 Fen (9)
8 Discretionary, noncompulsory (8)
9 Break suddenly under tension (4)
15 Strategist (9)
17 Stand still, become moribund (8)
18 Basis for comparison (8) 20 Regardless of (7) 22 Usefulness (7) 23 Influence (6)
24 Symbol indicating the musical pitch (4)
26 Beauty parlour (5)