DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Polish sheep met trouble in the shape of the devil (14) 10 Made paths around a line on surface of the road (7) 11 Damaged tarmac with front of recreational vehicle (7)

12 Freight transport for kind stock (5,5)

13 Sea bass? (4)

15 Flipping wide rut anywhere around the landscape (6)

16 Rational to be embarrassed about each child (8)

19 Host of parasites seen swarming (8)

21 See out in form of abasement for combative little man (6)

24 Dog with tail end to wind (4)

25 Got initial fitting for suit (10)

27 Stage tested for cleansing (7)

28 Note empty-headed learner entering ski slope (7) 29 Bit miffed towards sensitive call for offers (3,3,2,6)

DOWN

2 Profit from unusually exceptional lack of acne (7) 3 Heedless as the dogs ran off (10)

4 Spoof of the artiest play remained unfinished (6) 5 Came by rowing boat in the middle of aqueduct (8) 6 Pick up said present (4) 7 Left out centre in position to read (7)

8 Take off from landing place (5)

9 Alarming sort of seat for a politician (8)

14 Rapid rise in high spirits with regular social input (10) 17 Lord it over actor to keep me in work (8)

18 Grounds for people to jump into half-baked diets (8)

20 Managed to pierce pithy fruit (7)

22 Prickly one let this rattle (7)

23 Sleazy bar over extremely suspect shed (6) 24 Reasonable male appeared in headgear (5) 26 Carpet lifted by union leader in India (4)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Particular field of expertise (14)

10 Invade and take possession (7)

11 Foretell (7)

12 First-hand observer (10) 13 Infant (4)

15 Small (6)

16 Morally corrupt, degenerate (8)

19 Illegal, unjust (8)

21 Caper, gambol (6) 24 Coffee shop (4)

25 Calm, unemotional (10) 27 Lean back while resting (7)

28 Base, unworthy (7) 29 Passage between the English Channel and the North Sea (7,2,5)

DOWN

2 Justification (7)

3 Branch of medicine dealing with the heart (10) 4 Roof over a doorway (6) 5 Pretender (8)

6 Assert, declare (4)

7 Copy (7)

8 Dapper (5)

9 Salad of shredded cabbage (8)

14 Capital of California (10) 17 Wooden serving board (8) 18 Without pity, hardhearted (8)

20 Policeman (7)

22 Eminent person (7) 23 Conviction (6)

24 Milk coagulated by rennet (5)

26 Symbol of New Zealand (4)