DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

Friday’s solutions:

Across: - 1 Presto. 5 Manatee. 10 Seventeen. 11 Norma. 12 Erotica. 13 Tugboat. 14 Spinsters. 16 Allot. 18 Ruler. 20 Translate. 23 Defence. 24 Hideous. 26 Ovine. 27 Axminster. 28 Name tag. 29 Darken.

Down: - 2 Ravioli. 3 Sinai. 4 Operate. 5 Minutes. 6 Nanograms. 7 Turmoil. 8 Exact. 9 Assessor. 15 Stringent. 17 Treasury. 19 Leftism. 20 Trepang. 21 Ashamed. 22 Apostle. 23 Drown. 25 Donor.

ACROSS

1 Endlessly canoodle if equal to the competition (4,3,4)

9 Conveniences foreign to sorer modern woman (4,5) 10 Animal with the hankering to break into laughter (5)

11 Inside lane set a time to inspire others (7)

12 Being taught by company girl? (2,5)

13 While father sprinkled sugar on the vegetables (9) 16 The level headed make money, then get an education (5)

17 Dislikes unseemly haste (5)

19 Limits on solo lawful or legal worker (9)

22 Fire remains opposed to old African kingdom (7) 23 One is in need of flavour (7)

25 To start behind the winning card (5) 26 Heartsick when battered by blows around the head (5,4)

27 Bury coins at the junction (11)

DOWN

1 Sultana’s his little fruit (5) 2 Companies hold right atmosphere for the privateer (7)

3 Constructive method of commercial decoration (5) 4 Axing small girl in the face (9)

5 The laic version of professional conduct? (7) 6 Look up a role to sequester (4,5)

7 Mysteries inside the circular canal (6) 8 Contributes happy endings in the midst of anguish (4,2)

14 Throw caliph out of oil plant (9)

15 Sink turns on healthier tradesman (3,6)

17 Furnace core gets hot (6) 18 Pad isn’t designed to be a children’s play zone (4-3) 20 Fashionable knowledge of yellow? (7)

21 Salad plant at the centre of crab recipe (6) 23 Morning is the start of heaven for some religious people (5)

24 Escape being half dead under Peron (5)