DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Lacking experience as a conservationist (5)
4 Dance with a buck of a songwriter (9)
9 Bestowal of tip made two men excited (9)
10 Hopped from ale, changing to port (5)
11 Unlikely to be brought back from a distance (3-7) 12 Insensible state to master after short spell of carbon monoxide (4)
14 Short letterhead with revised title (6)
16 Tear into desperate race, entering at the last minute (8) 18 Supply us energy as dairy producer (8)
19 Ancient craft to shop for a lot of paper, we hear (6) 22 Breezy first-class lines (4) 23 Back workman on the grapevine (10)
26 Leading us towards reduced appetite (5) 27 Willingly suffer to remain uncultivated (3,6)
28 Sickly, seedy dawn of the longest 24 hours (9)
29 Made dresses and turned out weeds (5)
DOWN
1 Drag to go around with sense of being set up beside oneself (7)
2 Duck bringing up something coloured, blood that is (5) 3 End wan conditions and embrace enthusiasm in the country (3,7)
4 Opening top of bathers on river stretch (6)
5 Faith in neutral positions to keep her head (8)
6 Friend didn’t start to keep score (4)
7 Dry flag to raise and hold forth (9)
8 Survival of the fittest desert people (3,4)
13 Accounting for taverns being locked up (6,4) 15 Speculated how others die off (9)
17 Rose up, blushing, to embrace beauty (8)
18 Sag badly in the light industrial centre (7)
20 Finish with love and marry to settle with money (7)
21 Turn up extremely dirty jokes (6)
24 Lit up at the start of a great depression (5)
25 Commander kept half the fuel (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Pup (5)
4 Upright supporting beam (9)
9 Brighten up, renovate (9) 10 Indispensable (5) 11 Carefully selected for a purpose (4-6)
12 Pacific island republic (4) 14 Alloy of tin and lead (6) 16 Faithfulness (8) 18 Treachery (8)
19 Erase, eliminate (6) 22 Monstrous giant (4) 23 Administration (10) 26 Scent (5)
27 Legal declaration (9) 28 Accumulated reserve supply (9)
29 Perhaps (5)
DOWN
1 Revere (7)
2 Small and charming (5) 3 Incidental, at the margin (10)
4 Sudden changeover (6) 5 Sporting, active (8)
6 Bay (4)
7 Instinctive, innate (9) 8 Cancel out, neutralise (7) 13 Plebiscite (10)
15 Aquatic sport (5,4) 17 Fried squid (8)
18 Plant material used as fuel (7)
20 Give a claim to (7) 21 Bewilder (6) 24 Diplomatic messenger (5)
25 Set of playing cards (4)