DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Direct winning card player (5-4)
6 Order students (5) 9 Skipper in ocean reflected on alternative names (7) 10 Gold coin whipped round by flower of South America (7)
11 Grow bored and fail to claim credit charge (4,8) 14 New edition of Playboy covers half of them (6)
15 For the popular (2,6) 17 Covered farm building retains warmth (8)
19 I breathe hollow tune back in European parts (6) 22 Slapstick weapons of powdered tar dust carried in wagon (7,5)
25 One aunt repaired car cover (7)
26 State generation for run of the mill (7)
27 Only about five have the answer (5)
28 Plaything at the edge of soft shoulder, behind whirlpool (5,4)
DOWN
1 Almost fall to pieces under criticism (4)
2 Bankrupt individual in the middle of career (4)
3 Clump of scouts made over a thousand (7)
4 A news broadcast with right to respond (6)
5 Doctor holding on to cause of death (8)
6 Rude chairmen docked for unrealistic dream (7) 7 Straight over the committee’s head (5,5)
8 In need of money for biscuits (10)
12 Tries to use copters for transport (10)
13 Palermo’s in turmoil without human warmth (10) 16 Settle back in to study upright (8)
18 Net letters dictated from an acrobat’s workplace (7) 20 Where to draw a charge of assault? (7)
21 Thanks Shakespeare for the knight’s jacket (6) 23 Muddle-headed expert on the staff (4)
24 Fellow listener may shake in one’s shoes (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Impervious, invulnerable (9)
6 Ancient people of northern Britain (5) 9 Rearrangement of letters to form a new word (7) 10 Intrinsic quality (7) 11 Person expected to be succeed to an estate (4,8) 14 Circulate socially (6) 15 Stately, noble (8)
17 Place too heavy a weight upon (8)
19 Science of the behaviour of light (6)
22 Offspring of one’s partner by a previous marriage (12)
25 Malignant, evil (7) 26 Swagger, bombast (7) 27 Hard red wheat (5) 28 Dock worker (9)
DOWN
1 Wander (4)
2 Marine mammal (4) 3 Dreamlike (7)
4 Respect, venerate (6) 5 Dramatic, theatrical (8) 6 Alley, corridor (7) 7 Arranged in rings (10) 8 Disbelief, suspicion (10) 12 Out of the question (10) 13 Before the war (10) 16 Rod-shaped bacterium (8)
18 Satan (7)
20 Get ready (7)
21 Fit to be eaten (6) 23 Starchy tropical root (4) 24 Jab (4)