DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Unwilling saint made to mingle with the others (9) 6 Love in its present state is a place of refuge (5)
9 Quiet way to graze (5) 10 Foreign creation inside our drink (9)
11 Meaning one French badger (9)
12 Backing lubrication of manuscript (5)
13 Snobbish one taking on new titles (7)
15 Manual dexterity reported from cold shoulder (7)
17 Couplet set out in eight parts (7)
19 Panic stations are characteristic when boarding ship (7)
21 Original fishermen bale out a fishy tale (5)
23 Morals you loosened, in a loving way (9)
25 Stuck up but called round in times past (9) 26 Deer with big heart and tongue (5)
27 Look alive as duck appears in reddish brown coat (5)
28 Tore strips off when we touched scraps (6,3)
DOWN
1 Serve it frayed on edge (7) 2 Oriental cat is different to spaniel (9)
3 Guide the course of livestock (5)
4 Record a hundred by reckoning (7)
5 Added thoughts in support of instant muscle (7) 6 Undressed in neutral (3,2,4)
7 Wave to balloon (5) 8 Perhaps, thus excluded (4,3)
14 Simple men talk about tool (9)
16 Assign old positions on a sliding scale (9)
17 For example, general condition was lifted in fighting force (7)
18 Resilient enough to hold out in ice storm (7)
19 Foot of water filled the bishopric (7)
20 Pen register of a writer (7)
22 Spelt out, but included article on African speech (5) 24 Paint company raised her conditions (5)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Puzzle such as this one (9) 6 Assume authority by force (5)
9 Lawful (5)
10 Beguile, transfix (9) 11 Vagary, deviation (9) 12 Banishment (5) 13 Interlace (7)
15 Budding, emergent (7) 17 Crossbar, lintel (7) 19 Canvass support (7) 21 Become rotten (5) 23 Organisation, arrangement of parts (9) 25 Earnest (9)
26 Séance board (5) 27 Send on for further treatment (5)
28 Period of specialist clinical training (9)
DOWN
1 Artwork made with pasted paper and pictures (7) 2 Group of musicians (9) 3 Goatlike deity in Greek myth (5)
4 Transgression (7)
5 Pick out, spot (7) 6 Worldwide (9)
7 Savoury taste (5) 8 Ostensible motive, excuse (7)
14 Investigating officer (9) 16 Ostracism (9)
17 Instructor (7) 18 Practitioner of shiatsu (7) 19 Grey horizontal cloud (7) 20 Medical care (7)
22 Make comparatively small or unimportant (5) 24 Simultaneous sounding of a group of notes (5)