DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Skinhead married his fanciful Nordic type (7) 5 Disease raging on the coast (7)

10 Sinks Arab nation with hearty opiate and alcohol addiction (10)

11 and 25-across Stagger and kneel before sweetheart (4,4)

12 Minced meat doubled as member of the same side (4,4)

13 Ready to back street band (6)

14 Try on a crooked solicitor (6)

16 Instrument dried out in aggregate (4,4)

18 Boat turned off at oak island (8)

20 Dislike steed botching tight finish (6)

21 Arab enemy beaten before semi-final (6)

23 Rum time to be interrupting a bad dream (8) 25 See 11-across

26 Fruit that Argentines developed (10)

27 Showed female inside second-hand housing (7) 28 Disbeliever present during hold-up (7)

DOWN

2 Jot beginning of the end with milk (5)

3 Leave the boat behind and toss dimes over the bay (9)

4 Total irregular army is rundown (7)

6 Pleased as punch to have passed (7)

7 Transported Boers on the wagon (5)

8 Deluges American stock index with US porn production (9)

9 Meeting of minds beneath station (13)

15 We make sour cream with Santa’s little helpers (9) 17 Decide to put off excavation (9)

19 List compiled in the Scottish order (7)

20 Dike and bore, perhaps, holding the most water (7) 22 Fly back inside great lake nest (5)

24 Brook’s going topless is quite suggestive (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Blood sugar (7) 5 Comparison made to show a similarity (7) 10 Examiner of votes at an election (10)

11 Calf meat (4)

12 Confine (8)

13 Carry too far (6)

14 Cactus producing mescal (6)

16 Sewage pit (8)

18 Dilemma (8)

20 Oral (6)

21 Stop and confront (6) 23 Wages (8)

25 Lure for fish (4) 26 Inundation, dunking (10) 27 Signal fires (7) 28 Romanies (7)

DOWN

2 Profit, wealth (5) 3 Procedure leading to a rocket launch (9)

4 Kill oneself (7)

6 Jittery, jumpy (7)

7 Flood embankment (5) 8 Pretentious, pompous (9) 9 US horse race, part of the Triple Crown (8,5)

15 Speak clearly and distinctly (9)

17 Skin disease causing itchy scaly patches (9) 19 Skilled worker (7) 20 Doctor’s consulting room (7)

22 Connected with vision (5)

24 Sphere (5)