Double Crossword
ACROSS
CRYPTIC CLUES
1 Badly need arm to bend (7) 5 Pursue reforms that allow big end's boom (7) 9 Matter caught behind pith helmet (5) 10 Make turns at 1-across (5,4) 11 More slippery as one is embraced by feminist pioneer (8) 12 Neat shot, any cover for the for non-drinker! (5) 14 Cheats some bistro guests (6) 15 Poor marriage made girl shorter and lighter (8) 18 In case bolt was adapted for a barrier (8) 20 Nerve cell calling for a second Reagan (6) 23 Old goat may stray, unfortunately (5) 25 Sign of heartache over Spooner's boring head (4,4) 27 Rocks and ice bounced around truck beforehand (2,7) 28 Report on a month's crop (5) 29 Realm of short-term thinking, domestically (7) 30 Rattled off after unveiling predicted events (7)
DOWN
1 China tea (4) 2 A loose grasp held a fuse inside spear (9) 3 State real conditions behind Christmas time (7) 4 Earn it after failing to save (6) 5 Intrepid university supporter lifted attack (8) 6 Bone of contention? Rent in total (7) 7 First of the river's eels and carp to take the bait (5) 8 Really wasted to tuck into, say, the works (10) 13 Putter about to get second class lodgings on credit (10) 16 Slip one's made in dry case of hijacker, say (9) 17 Grey scholarly language floating over university in the afternoon (8) 19 Succeeded in gaining victory during rout of raider (7) 21 Prevalent in the area when one is out of worm medicine (7) 22 Roughly refer to being gutted by one's profession (6) 24 Work out one thing after another (5) 26 Paid a price for nourishment (4)
ACROSS
QUICK CLUES
1 Mischievous, impish (7) 5 Division of a city (7) 9 Rascal (5) 10 Mating behaviour (9) 11 Adversary (8) 12 Wading bird with long plumes (5) 14 Cited as evidence (6) 15 Scattered over (8) 18 Process of starting combustion (8) 20 Forces out (6) 23 Speak without preparation, improvise (2-3) 25 Sit on eggs (8) 27 Beyond the usual or tolerable limits (9) 28 Arm joint (5) 29 Hoydens (7) 30 Authority, upper hand (7)
DOWN
1 Upper-class, genteel (4) 2 Suppress (5,4) 3 Beseech (7) 4 Field game (6) 5 Rewards, premiums (8) 6 Withdraw, retire (7) 7 Show to one's seats (5) 8 Longest side of a rightangled triangle (10) 13 Commensurate, interchangeable (10) 16 Mercurial, volatile (9) 17 Science of government (8) 19 Hot sauce (7) 21 Unemployed (7) 22 Shriek (6) 24 Substitute doctor (5) 26 Swing to and fro (4)