DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 A peril crossing over carbon copy (7)

5 Caught out minors redhanded? (7)

9 Tango, foxtrot in the islands (5)

10 When playing with chip, trade at the lowest cost (4,5) 11 Proper examination of those who survive (7) 12 Battle cry to give them authority (7)

13 Opening to test fielding positions in a philatelist’s collection (5-3,6)

17 Go straight and make a good profit on caste structure (5,2,4,3)

21 Fed chaos with lastminute collapse (7) 23 Cancel out fully, in a fashion (7)

25 Review of the troops some time before April last year (5,4)

26 An ape attempting a song of praise (5)

27 Laid arm out like Nelson (7)

28 Friend fixed sign on fence posts (7)

DOWN

1 Confirm strange fairy circles – about time, too! (6) 2 Page put on pristine new suit (9)

3 First class up in arms (5) 4 Checked that the Aussie dollar had turned the tide (7) 5 Desert island sheltering one green seed (7)

6 Lacking any interest to become liable for debts (9) 7 Florentine rival dissolved in sea (5)

8 Relative benefits of wild pimentos (8)

14 Heat burns parts of beachgoer (9)

15 Clue set by college head held up unit of geometry (9) 16 Current American capital linked media organisation with universites (8)

18 Get the better of a quiet minister and feel worse (7) 19 Continuous pontoons contructed without overhead (7)

20 Has internalised desire for carnivores (6)

22 Class holding union meeting (5)

24 Part of a coat to copy, between the lines (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Extreme, severe (7) 5 Region of flat terrain (7) 9 Imbecile (5)

10 Instinctive, visceral (9) 11 Capital of Cyprus (7) 12 Futile (7)

13 Aggregated mass (14) 17 Deprive of the vote (14) 21 Frontier settlement (7) 23 Language of Barcelona (7)

25 Native (9)

26 Type of jazz (5)

27 Large retail stores (7) 28 Breeding ground for birds or seals (7)

DOWN

1 Call for (6)

2 Heinous (9)

3 Barbecue tools (5)

4 City on Lake Michigan (7) 5 Salad vegetable (7) 6 Conceal or gloss over failings (9)

7 Japanese cartoon (5) 8 Mayonnaise or vinaigrette (8)

14 Venetian boatman (9) 15 Incapable of being dissolved (9)

16 Publicly recommend (8) 18 Greek wine (7) 19 Operated by atomic energy (7)

20 Quick, brisk (6) 22 Parade (5)

24 Forbidden (5)