DOUBLE CROSSWORD

Yesterday’s solutions: Across:

- 1 Tarmac. 5 Usance. 10 Matriarch. 11 Roles. 12 Impost.

13 Old flame. 15 His Majesty. 16 Chat. 19 Room. 20 Fairground. 23 Twenties. 25 Boogie. 27 Nabob. 28 Reanimate. 29 Astern. 30 Latest.

- 2 Antipasto. 3 Mainstay. 4 Corn. 5 Upholstery. 6 Adrift. 7 Cilia. 8 Impish. 9 Assent. 14 Decahedron. 17 Hourglass. 18 Arsonist. 19 Retina. 21 Diesel. 22 Stable. 24 Embus. 26 Ball.

Down: ACROSS

CRYPTIC 1 Santa suffered poor habit that’s a drawback inside chimneys! (14)

10 Rate food provided in tablet form? (9) 11 Small-town hero ultimately underwent change in call box (5) 12 Backflip knocked the head off crazy pitcher (1-4) 13 Moderately amphibian, for example, by the middle of the creek (2,1,6) 14 Workshop polished off pork pie recipe (7) 15 Notices casualty department (7)

17 Used as great method to disperse a mob (4,3) 20 Dupe won redress, having confessed (5,2) 22 Eased out and around project on ocean road (9) 24 Farewell to finish in Australia (5)

26 Art to making up a pack of forecasters (5)

27 Said awful gluttony created conflict (9)

28 Let ranch develop before consuming warmth at home (7,7)

DOWN

2 Garland certain to have free time (7)

3 Stiff bun melts on completion (9)

4 Mark or Judas? (7)

5 Trials are sold out (7) 6 Have crossed over the edge of continental divide (5)

7 Liquor should end in Arabic culture (7)

8 Made pun as well when successfully negotiated (3,4,2)

9 Colour of the centre of pie crust (4)

14 True account kept the unit jumping (9)

16 Opposed to sod all in the west of Ireland (9)

18 Drug abuse in Paris (7) 19 Disgrace to quickly look up boy (7)

20 Manage more than the territory of a bishop (7) 21 Theatre attached most of IV line to blood vessel (5-2) 23 Change address, leaving them empty right from the start (5)

25 Your duty is to swallow tongue (4)