DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Call to action as a result of a close game of snap? (3,5,2,4)

9 Backed a prerequisite in the way of fruit (7)

10 Fear led to reform of the union (7)

11 Call for redemption before the world ends (4) 12 Made free resolution in unusual public poll (10) 14 Devotee joined single party afterwards (8)

15 Strip part of chest with thin detailing (6)

18 Savage fire damaged walls of cottage (6)

19 Toss up to turn around my operation (8)

21 Payees set in pricerigging (10)

23 A mother and father of Cain (4)

26 Cheer most of cricket team while accepting a Test opener (7)

27 First story turned on transport (7)

28 Dawn on whitecaps and blacklegs (6,8)

DOWN

1 Match crime with hardcore issue (5)

2 Those dancing in the green are loose-limbed (9) 3 Meet midway with conjunction (4)

4 Passes away, without help, from illness (8)

5 Some printing away with batch (6)

6 Performed with dire results in grunge instrument (10)

7 Pickled aubergine finally found amongst cheese ingredient (5)

8 Readiness to excuse misspelling of cycle men? (8)

13 Resting places to break up a cargo ship (10)

14 Grass on firmer ground (8)

16 Battering second-class highway border (9)

17 Kick up the backside for Spooner’s drink (4,4) 20 Hard as always in that quarter (6)

22 Comb cold leftovers (5) 24 Objects to intellectuals (5)

25 Bit of jazz and a bit of Indian melody (4)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Recovery from injury (14) 9 Substantiate (7) 10 Upset, sobbing (7) 11 Banded chalcedony (4) 12 Prewar (10)

14 Pig’s feet (8)

15 Food voucher (6) 18 Asian ape (6) 19 Adulthood (8)

21 Having three sides (10) 23 Twist, distort (4) 26 Flee from custody (7) 27 In pieces (7)

28 Ballet and drama, for example (10,4)

DOWN

1 Front side of a printed sheet of paper (5)

2 Internal structure of a beehive (9)

3 Pass rapidly from liquid to vapour (4)

4 Famous person (8) 5 Animal’s restricting rope (6) 6 Description of a journey (10) 7 Edible internal parts of an animal (5)

8 Mercy, leniency (8)

13 Dish of meat in a sour cream sauce (10) 14 Cheapskate (8)

16 Have many affairs with women (9)

17 Fried squid (8)

20 Seller (6)

22 Matter in dispute (5) 24 French capital (5)

25 Cork or rubber stopper (4)