DOUBLE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Luminary description of this clue, perhaps? (7,5) 10 Clearly revealed identification when entering tournament (7) 11 Prepare to shape clay and hit the skids (2,2,3) 12 Bits to the back of belt (5) 13 Personally put together the extremes of yachtmanship and painting (3,2,4) 14 The next to fall over after silly midon (6) 15 Grotesque figure suffered gory injury during storm (8) 18 Representative of a manless association (8) 20 Main outcome of American hostility (6) 23 Broken treaty kept politician off the hook (2,7) 25 Take a liking to follower with curvy sides (5) 27 Provided food for kitten before starting on dinner (7) 28 Honour with spun silk monument (7) 29 Instant environment for ingrained habits (6,6) CRYPTIC
DOWN
2 Dovetail hog and sheep in a paradoxical remark (7) 3 Doctor singes off top of sore and bandages (9) 4 Tell of tiny discrepancies (6) 5 Warne’s typical ball made a stump fracture? (3,5) 6 Manage to overtake (3,2) 7 Crown airy members in the trimming of trees (7) 8 Great deal to be seen in ‘The Apprentice’ (4) 9 Speaks haltingly of trust set asunder (8) 14 Rapidity of spring in narrow channel (8) 16 Get down on the knees where itchy feet clung (9) 17 Old woman messed up darn hair (8) 19 Permits for trainees to wreck pallets (1-6) 21 Meathead turned in real butcher (7) 22 Heavy weight embracing suspiciously coy businessman (6) 24 Lawyers in charge of air pressure (5) 26 Bind together with some egg, say (4) QUICK
ACROSS
1 Symphony orchestra (12) 10 The human race (7) 11 Hermit (7) 12 Rich cake (5) 13 Sear body tissue to treat a wound (9) 14 Staid, sober (6) 15 Fatal, incurable (8) 18 Edible snail (8) 20 Loan shark (6) 23 Rule by a priesthood (9) 25 Dark Arabian coffee (5) 27 Draw attention away from someone else (7) 28 Type of hawk that hunts over grassland (7) 29 Vulnerable spot (8,4)
DOWN
2 Century (7) 3 City in the English Midlands (9) 4 Kidnap (6) 5 Raider, pillager (8) 6 Recess in a wall (5) 7 Circumspection (7) 8 Give out, discharge (4) 9 Seller of gemstones, necklaces and rings (8) 14 Range of colours (8) 16 Person with a muscular body (9) 17 Voracious snakelike fish (5,3) 19 London suburb with an annual flower show (7) 21 Lean back at rest (7) 22 Chinese fruit (6) 24 Collision (5) 26 Rounded, thickly curled hairlstyle (4)