DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Church gets involved in device for family planning (13) 10 Glasses contain different range of seasoning (7) 11 Lease back and gamble on concealing condition of building (7)

12 Gather compliment and size up again (10)

13 Brew said to give support for the body (4)

15 One insect holds another back in a weak way (6) 16 Overstep when refining refuse (8)

19 Hairstyles and heartache elaborated in song (8) 21 Leave as retiring governor (6)

24 Fast advanced (4)

25 Cold polar mines are abandoned (10)

27 Young woman one met on duty (7)

28 New credentials lack dirt to purge (7)

29 Score that was prepared or that score in preparation (13)

DOWN

2 Had too much of the bowler’s delivery speed, we hear (7)

3 Jump when public transport collapsed on pile (10) 4 Waterproof covering for paperback hidden in a tree (6) 5 Odds on good service? (8) 6 First among many to get up for work (4)

7 View of half-pink interior to bulb (7)

8 Poor, or if rich, frightful (8) 9 Mean to swallow last of the stone fruit (4)

14 Paper made the bread so crumbly (10)

17 Make suitable replies and keep answer in the framework (8)

18 Odd name one has given to flowers (8)

20 What clears the air with noisier characters (7)

22 Come across and nick tomato skin (3,4)

23 Deafen certain parts of Olympian (6)

24 Little devil may drag a leg (4)

26 Near thing to be being decapitated and butchered (4)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Confidence in claiming one’s rights (13)

10 Bones protecting the lungs (3,4)

11 Fractious, agitated (7) 12 Nobleman (10) 13 Racecourse barrier (4) 15 Unscathed, untouched (6)

16 Carnival attraction (8) 19 Makes more cheerful (8) 21 Chase (6)

24 Sheep’s coat (4)

25 Fail to meet expectations (10)

27 Sweet made from almonds (7)

28 Free time (7)

29 Breed of small longeared dog (6,7)

DOWN

2 Manage to live (7) 3 Springiness (10)

4 Deep ditch (6)

5 Word for word (8)

6 Prying (4)

7 Leafy green vegetable (7) 8 Weird, aberrant (8) 9 Peddle (4)

14 Act of beginning again where one left off (10) 17 Sumo contestant (8) 18 Designer of public works such as bridges and harbours (8) 20 Pear-shaped green fruit (7)

22 Convulsion (7) 23 Horse’s fastest pace (6) 24 Cried (4)

26 Fibre produced by the larva of a moth (4)