DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS 1 Cracks code and spirit of behaviour (7)

5 Determined to put the boot in (3,4)

9 Unions arranged childbirth (9,6)

10 Film legend with nothing to crow about (5)

11 Plant at different angle with prong of fork (9) 12 Sinew linking round figure with academic figure (6)

14 Magnitude otherwise concealed through spite (8) 17 Tramp pays the cost of record (8)

18 Keep company with house number between business openings (6) 21 Personification of beauty in bizarre period hat (9) 23 Wind up clock to start with and fall short (5) 25 Settles the score and arranges to have a single restitched? (4,4,3,4) 26 Fancy American power lay in the church (7)

27 One working underground when the dog catcher’s behind (7)

DOWN 1 Debtor should make up shortage (7)

2 Tragically tied up with smoke (5)

3 Bitter twist to our scorn about the absolute beginner (9)

4 This guy could be a vapour sprayer (6)

5 Team policy to take out of the game (8)

6 Following guide (5) 7 Profession image of the rider (9)

8 Training ground for north Surrey outfit (7)

13 Notes hype raging about newcomers (9)

15 Rude cartoon by a student in dental work (4,5) 16 Bird pulls apart tree, jokily removing the outer layer (8)

17 Turn fan’s leg with projecting edges (7)

19 Wave of rice husks in breadmaker (7)

20 Dauntless and stouthearted to infiltrate the fiendish Reich (6)

22 Bracing air needed when individual is underweight (5) 24 Cook a pie that’s filled with game? (5)

QUICK

ACROSS 1 Social climber (7) 5 Perceptiveness, acumen (7)

9 Testing of an idea (15) 10 Fashion (5)

11 Reason, justification (9) 12 Eavesdrop (6) 14 Neighbourhood (8) 17 Orange pigment in plants (8)

18 Kind of drum (3-3) 21 Peerless (9)

23 Small photograph placed inside another (5) 25 Enthusiastic appreciation of an audience (8,7) 26 Marine polyp with a ring of tentacles (7) 27 Ceremonial rod (7)

DOWN 1 Implement, tool (7) 2 Mawkish, sentimental (5) 3 Treaty, contract (9)

4 Tone quality (6)

5 Firing system of an engine (8)

6 Cylindrical military hat (5) 7 Band member (9)

8 Leather factory (7) 13 Decrease in size (9) 15 Loathe (9)

16 Insect’s feelers (8)

17 Card game involving melding (7)

19 Afternoon performance (7)

20 Flowers (6)

22 Sound recording (5) 24 Holy person who is canonised (5)