DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Treatment for American maturity (5)

4 Crowns working girl with the whip hand (4,5)

9 Sect held rip-roaring, though guilty, party (7)

10 Allure of girl gutted by relationship (7)

11 Dead beat with some cash for deposit? (5,2,4) 12 Succeeded in retiring these days (3)

13 Sea salt littered books of charts (7)

15 Where movie stars work at the inception (5)

18 Pound backed by halfhearted nation (5)

20 Cover for entrance of first company to have left in front (7)

23 Seed planted in the deep earth (3)

24 Experts and dupes on both sides of the argument (4,3,4) 26 Goes round to stare rudely (7)

27 Connery bottled oil extracted from sea creature (3,4)

28 Fruit seed discarded after being overfed (9) 29 Transformed age with one’s sponsorship (5)

DOWN

1 Risky truce in an agitation (9) 2 Greeting is wholly healthy to hear (3,4)

3 Top annual in good time (5) 4 Delicate for you, at one time, to fill stockings (8)

5 Let out groan behind the back of bravura supplier of yarns (6)

6 Hairdresser keeps glasses in small food basket (9)

7 Odd man’s out of numbers (7)

8 Put off one’s stroke to make pottery (5)

14 Some explosive later step to be organised (9)

16 Hot figures turn up on beach in large numbers (9) 17 Community centre paid tribute for being lifted on high (8)

19 Hymn book may change following afterthought (7) 21 Evening out in club in German capital (7)

22 Sent half in the mail as an old remedy (6)

23 Takes heart from fringe benefits (5)

25 In the end, bread and butter needed by acting lead (5)