DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Crooks bent every single sport (7)

5 Costing out of esoteric knowledge (7)

10 and 27-across Richards blasted a cove during oral examination (4,4)

11 Logged growth of the marsh that hid wild tigers (10)

12 Drill and force open to admit measure (8)

13 Reach out and contact redhead’s zodiac sign (6) 15 and 20-across The poor pork pies kept oven in a mess (4,4)

16 Stranger greets sage with seasonal gifts (6,4) 17 Did rose turn the colour of blood in confusion? (10) 20 See 15-across

22 Time taken in making up rules for an Irish side (6) 23 Lefty to show up at training (8)

25 Thousand is sheltering in the time taken to blow up (10)

27 See 10-across

28 Delight count up in the Scotland lowland (7) 29 Whiff at the bottom of rotter (7)

DOWN

2 Eastern, artier parts of the country (7)

3 Expands into roughage and touches crumbs (8,3) 4 Complaint of working girl overdoing university (5) 6 Just take the lead when lacking marine command? (4,5)

7 and 26-down Fly off the handle when top tennis player embraced queen (3,3)

8 Central African waterbird turned up in an Arctic environment (7)

9 Mess sergeant held up withdrawal (6)

14 Lances boil and retreat with smooth skin (5-6) 16 Patience to stop and cure an invalid (9)

18 Under the counter and under the weather before gale broke (7)

19 Unpolished citrus production (6)

21 Share portion of the hour in an hypnotic state (7) 24 Apiculture does include hives! (5)

26 See 7-down

QUICK ACROSS

1 Tongue depressor (7) 5 Written marks placed above vowels (7)

10 Tangle in the hair (4) 11 Palace of Louis XIV (10) 12 Predicted series of events (8)

13 Unit of electric current (6) 15 Network, web (4)

16 Solid ground (5,5) 17 Lopsided, uneven (10) 20 A twelfth of a foot (4) 22 Jeers, mocks (6) 23 Winner (8)

25 Dramatic, histrionic (10) 27 Christmas (4)

28 Suspend a meeting until a later date (7) 29 Immeasurably bad (7)

DOWN

2 Verve, swagger (7) 3 Pharaoh whose tomb was discovered in 1922 (11)

4 Bar pivoting around a fulcrum (5)

6 Sightseeing coach (9) 7 Moray or conger (3) 8 Hypothesis (7)

9 Fervour, zeal (6) 14 Southeast Asian nation (11)

16 Chief financial officer (9) 18 Broken into pieces (7) 19 Fancifully ornate (6) 21 Infectious disease causing violent diarrhoea (7)

24 Unrehearsed (2-3) 26 Hoo-ha (3)