DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Authentic setting for another case of rationing (12)
9 Letter set pile in tatters (7) 10 Sea legs in a storm never grow old (7)
11 Pulp shared lodgings and quickly got bigger (10) 12 Female grand final crowd (4)
14 Failure to turn up food before growth is trimmed (2-4)
16 Current love sets style for followers (8)
18 Uncommon to bear terrible diatribe (8)
19 Assist work stoppage (6) 22 Jot down part of the Riot Act (4)
23 Needed things as tea dried out (10)
26 Crafty Belgian took another nationality (7) 27 Washout’s failing heart in an African tongue (7)
28 Two tongues to put on a gloss (6,6)
DOWN
1 Wreckage of careers seen all about one (5)
2 Father worked on yours and mine between five and nine (5,5)
3 Porky sound of cow hide (3,3)
4 Come together with fuel on the middle of the crescent (8)
5 Centre keeled over the long haul (4)
6 Poetaster rewriting musical scores (9)
7 Happy ending means squashing crawler (6) 8 Remarks to spectators in first-class stands (6)
13 A git used to pick up garbage of the beautiful people (10)
15 Bribe or lolly given to divide energies (9) 17 Desperately keen and intoxicated, in short (4-4) 18 Take heart with mob I tackled with elbows out (6) 20 Not moving after attic’s renovation (6)
21 Upset if a second company is a complete failure (6)
24 Church some time in the morning? (5)
25 Return the odd increase in profit (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Unfounded anxiety about one’s health (12) 9 Radioactive particles that settle after an atomic bomb (7)
10 Small hard nodule on the body (7)
11 Profane expressions (10) 12 Ajar (4)
14 Plasterer’s tool (6)
16 Lazy (8)
18 Incorrect name (8) 19 Whisky (6)
22 Hideout (4) 23 Opportune (10) 26 Fictional vampire (7) 27 Go on a drinking spree (7)
28 Assumed to exist (12)
DOWN
1 Split in two (5)
2 Business owner (10) 3 Natural fibre (6)
4 The West (8)
5 Unable to hear (4) 6 Nascent (9)
7 Countervail (6)
8 Goober (6)
13 Having a common centre (10)
15 Stubbornness (9)
17 War memorial (8) 18 Sickness, ailment (6) 20 Antipathy (6) 21 Long-legged shore bird (6)
24 Identical in size (5) 25 Motor car (4)