DOUBLE CROSSWORD

Yesterday’s solutions: Across:

- 1 Battering rams. 10 Bucolic. 11 Private. 12 On tap. 13 Clergyman. 14 Up close. 15 Several. 18 Exploit. 21 Organic. 23 Denigrate. 25 Latin. 26 Cravats. 27 Sunrise. 28 Clear the decks.

- 2 Ascetic. 3 Telephoto. 4 Recycle. 5 Nippers. 6 Ruing. 7 Myanmar. 8 Absolute. 9 Fern. 16 Vigilante. 17 Licensee. 19 Pinball. 20 Transit. 21 Oversee. 22 Nitpick. 23 Duct. 24 Ghana.

Down: ACROSS

CRYPTIC

1 Can openers swallow oil designed for stomach pain? (5)

4 Sideshow occupation is an honest business! (4,5) 9 Leo admits individual is communication channel (7) 10 Storm the leg side during revolution (7)

11 Politicians ordered means test (9)

13 Useless object held writer back (5)

14 Snare position with a little magazine (7) 16 Circulates contentious affairs (6)

18 Girl in a denim outfit (6) 20 Badly spelt – ie a long letter (7)

23 Stroke cheerleader in new suit (5)

24 Distressed and hurt in car accident (3-3-3)

26 Tote bag of the elderly into foyer (4-3)

27 The rack is truer to form (7)

28 Performed a nice turn up in the air (9)

29 Lived in Germany and raised mark (5)

DOWN

1 Porter’s rule for making salad (8)

2 Australian animal grasped the vine (5)

3 Social centre behind t ank (7)

4 and 27-down Stir up buff with gambler’s game (3,3) 5 Uncontrollable as ironsides on the mainland (11)

6 Poisons speech with warning signs (7)

7 Note meant making amends (9)

8 Matters when flat tyres lose contents (6)

12 Hill came on a sort of depression (11)

15 Clever clogs upsets meal carts (5,4)

17 Fingertip rudely enters without one to put it back in (8)

19 Misery of the French couple (7)

21 Redoing parts that were passed over (7)

22 Six shun works of the deity (6)

25 Path of detour changed in the end (5)

27 See 4-down