DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Cat for every fish and cheeky pup (14) 10 Caught goon out with African flower (5) 11 Bring ashore German notes with outstanding features (9) 12 Heavy metal outfits perish with their management (10) 13 Heart of mine has head start (4) 15 State of unease when taking in the velocity of the roads (7) 17 Peace plan or a damp squib? (4,3) 18 Cookhouses in grand little streets (7) 20 Song about chaps in the country (7) 22 Unimaginable quantity of wise men (4) 23 Result of getting too drunk during graduation (7,3) 26 Bend rivet in factual recovery operation (9) 27 Alternately soap up near bath (5) 28 Holds down and provokes a tingling sensation (4,3,7)
DOWN
2 Chicken canape trimmed with dye (5) 3 Taken to court for writing on pretty daughter (10) 4 Joins up disconnected line on streets (7) 5 Unrisen but strangely brighter (7) 6 Poor relief during Palm Sunday (4) 7 Individual swallows one millimetre of tropical fruit (9) 8 Kind of jam to have got on with it (4,3) 9 Scally wag was a danger to Greek shipping (6) 14 Went together with injury and onside foul (10) 16 Instruct stranger in the glen (9) 18 Sweet fall of the eucalypt? (7) 19 Emaciated celebrity with very bleeding heart (7) 20 Top two classes work out free of charge (7) 21 Cast rally around like stars (6) 24 Plant seed of free love all about university (5) 25 Capital equipment takes centre stage (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Sociability (14) 10 Branches (5) 11 Mafia head (9) 12 Rider of Silver and friend of Tonto (4,6) 13 Extinct flightless bird of Mauritius (4) 15 Stonework (7) 17 Plug for a gun’s muzzle (7) 18 Connoisseur of fine food (7) 20 Canada’s largest city (7) 22 Necessity (4) 23 Tyranny (10) 26 Subcontract to another company (9) 27 Respond to a stimulus (5) 28 Apparatus for cooling a house (3-11)
DOWN
2 Cow’s stomach (5) 3 The art of good eating (10) 4 The latter part of the reign of George III (7) 5 Leftover piece of cloth (7) 6 Mark of an old wound (4) 7 Abyssinian (9) 8 Prime cut of beef (7) 9 Ski race (6) 14 Theatrical entrepreneur (10) 16 Seaman’s waterproof hat (9) 18 Venetian boat (7) 19 Became narrower (7) 20 Violent flood (7) 21 Heavily decorated (6) 24 Mental representation (5) 25 Toy consisting of a spool on a string (2-2)