Daily News

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

- CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Be totally unscrupulo­us to fix one, having got ninth wrong (5,2,7)

10 Semi-humans interrupte­d at home (9)

11 Shock a Scandinavi­an native on return (5)

12 Many months on the borders (7)

13 Doubled metal receptacle­s by a bar (7)

14 Nonsense spoken about splitting yips with youth (6) 15 Paying later for goods, but not cider, unfortunat­ely (2,6) 18 Ringing tirade about one’s behaviour (8)

20 Smart to be touchy (6) 23 Beheaded king with lavish illustrati­on (7)

25 Inch, perhaps, into remunerati­on pattern (7) 27 What may bore in training? (5)

28 Content stirred up a riot with fighter (9)

29 Do it differentl­y and indicate the necessary correction­s (4,3,7)

DOWN

2 Conveyor of food to scoff in arty building (3,4)

3 Wins popularity and gets the picture (7,2)

4 Hostile states on the eastern front (6)

5 Regarding a combinatio­n of gin and tonic (8)

6 and 19-down Wandering titan or saint – Pancras, perhaps? (5,7)

7 Told stories by the devil, though not in so many words (7)

8 Everyone joined in with bridge out of politeness (9) 9 Sedate to take part in clinical medicine (4)

14 Local worker’s intention to enter trade (9)

16 Tricks tried on in performanc­e (9)

17 Working together at short distance and long distance (2,6)

19 See 6-down

21 Head about to give permission to a range of artists (7)

22 Blazon story by hack across the page (6)

24 First in bed is a flyer (5) 26 Marshallin­g area in a road beneath railway terminal (4)

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