DOUBLE CROSSWORD

Friday’s solutions: Across:

- 1 Batik. 4 Optical. 9 Sacrament. 10 Syrup. 11 Tallow. 12 After all. 14 Regimental. 15 Dram. 18 Crib. 20 Reminisced. 23 Close-ups. 24 Usurps. 26 Drone. 27 Noctunal. 28 Trellis. 29 Moist.

- 1 Backlog. 2 Tearooms. 3 Keep. 4 Out of habit. 5 Tassel. 6 Corsair. 7 Lapel. 8 Esoteric. 13 Underpants. 16 Modestly. 17 Missouri. 19 Isotope. 21 Coronet. 22 Cereal. 23 Cadet. 25 Scum.

Down: ACROSS

CRYPTIC 1 Rough girl used plaything to contain unruly mob (6) 4 Take the top off and question if it’s appropriate attire for the slopes (3,4) 10 Outlaw speared working party (9)

11 Initial, golden rule for stirring porridge (5)

12 Like milk to be mixed all at once after tossing on (7) 13 King made Athena some realm in the East (7) 14 Everybody to return grant (5)

15 Peerless standard in online exchange (9)

17 Ask trauma units to make up a sex manual (4,5) 19 Hitch as the sound of industry was limited by consumption (5)

21 Seafood throws up crop of bacterium (7)

23 Freak sticks two pennies up powdered noses (7) 25 Unacceptable idea to be without one (3,2) 26 Tragically continued to be disregarded (9)

27 Brand leader made heroic sort of loaf (7) 28 Overseas game bird (6)

DOWN

1 Time on plastic dial is influenced by the moon (5) 2 Dubious claim to accommodate us in South Pacific, for example (7)

3 Apt stereo arrangement for some music (9) 5 Aimlessly rambling or running down 18 holes (8,6) 6 Hot rock mother hugged the leader of the group (5) 7 Habit of a priest to be unconscious, but insane? (7) 8 Risk of surmounting glass ceilings is coming to nothing (7,7)

9 Vocal group with a joystick? (4,4)

14 A look borders on a border of the basic (8) 16 Remedies being stationed in detachments (9) 18 Trombone’s composition lost on gang member (7) 20 Constructed as crude second-hand vehicle (4-3) 22 Dance held by Tibetan goatherds (5)

24 Lads treated youth leader in a sorry way (5)