DOUBLE CROSSWORD

Yesterday’s solutions: Across:

- 1 Mother-to-be. 6 Sand. 10 Mailbag. 11 Rowdies. 12 Natal. 13 Offensive. 14 Ogle. 15 At full pelt. 18 Manicurist. 21 Spun. 24 Leadlight. 26 Class. 27 Topsoil. 28 Leonine. 29 Veer. 30 Iridescent.

- 1 Memento. 2 Triathlon. 3 Embalm. 4 Tugboat. 5 Bird flu. 7 Alibi. 8 Dessert. 9 Swindle. 16 Emphasize. 17 Scallop. 18 Molotov. 19 Regular. 20 Settled. 22 Nascent. 23 Across. 25 Ample.

Down: ACROSS

CRYPTIC

1 Inclination to take off legs in fright (5,7)

9 Half-told score in full (7) 10 Difficult to grasp union involvement in organising levies (7)

11 Therefore a popular time for melodrama (4,5) 12 Among varieties of fruit (5)

13 Full as a goog with pudding (4)

14 Sad saint in trouble with revolutionary Nicaraguan (10)

18 Can’t a cross become holy? (10)

19 Film one hundred in total (4)

22 Second memo planning battle (5)

24 A talent an amateur displays before birth (9) 26 Necessity turned nag into a wild horse (7) 27 Treatment holds out, in a fashion (7)

28 Having been struck off the register for lack of energy (12)

DOWN

1 A bit slow in knotting right lace (9)

2 Doctor swallowed every bit of duck at speed (6) 3 Herb calls for final drinks (5)

4 Rocks clad in rough language (9)

5 ‘Calabash’, admitted fellow epicurean (8) 6 Reports of the fall of royal authority (5)

7 East German secret police’s lack of action (6) 8 Headgear for the deaf or disabled (6)

15 Diagonally across a brown fish (2,2,5)

16 Made us a secret tool for the garden (9)

17 Future weather is about to be seen in the woods (8) 18 Half sewn with identical seed (6)

20 Scene where limousine casually drops off son (6) 21 Undergo undercooking under the earth (6)

23 Some of what granma said about African people (5)

25 Changes course levy, we hear (5)