The Star Early Edition

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Two sorts of footwear left with no holds barred (5,3,3) 9 Result constituti­ng a lot? (5)

10 Commission having no money and style (9)

11 Parts of Orlando come across, firstly, as proverbial­ly dead (4,4) 12 See head opening book in store (6)

14 Champion boxed around a hundred pound (4)

15 One self-taught vehicle performed routine (10) 18 Stand in for a position below the den? (10) 19 Sway-back disorder (4) 22 Smell perishes with remains (6)

24 A wit asks for trouble from this symbol (8) 26 Accommodat­e with sporting arena to attend (4,2,3)

27 Understood to order porridge without dip (5) 28 Motorist’s demand in the middle of nowhere? (3,2,3,3)

DOWN

1 Engaged with hotter stuff in the cot (9)

2 Turn nothing up and hang back, giving the eye (6) 3 Quits Boers’ organisati­on over nicknames (10) 4 Number tolerable in a narrow space (4) 5 Anti-youth policy suggested time lag caught up with Central Committee (3,5)

6 A little ashamed without restraint (5)

7 Sat out, raising support in sportsgrou­nds (6)

8 Grate a potato slice for brewing requisite (6)

13 Poet getting the going rate for letters? (10) 16 Wonderfull­y represente­d by the vitality in Malay settlement­s (9)

17 Object found after moving performanc­e (8) 18 Open the door to bun fight with unruly lot (6) 20 Wait behind bus terminal if it’s brightly lit (6)

21 Trust the Midwest to boast (6)

23 Dog, in other words? (5) 25 Working party with loud complaint (4)

QUICK

ACROSS

1 Loss of water (11)

9 Biblical patriarch, the son of Abraham (5)

10 Opera glasses (9) 11 Cripple, render immobile (8)

12 Taken illegally (6) 14 English public school (4) 15 Train engine (10)

18 Black and white bearlike mammal (5,5)

19 Bundle up in paper or cloth (4)

22 Croatian capital (6) 24 Knitted jacket, buttoning up the front (8)

26 Expel from a group (9) 27 Without illuminati­on (5) 28 Culprit (11)

DOWN

1 Watery faeces (9) 2 Interrupt or taunt a public speaker (6)

3 Suffering from hallucinat­ions (10) 4 Rounded, thickly curled hairstyle (4)

5 Process of starting combustion (8)

6 Relating to birth (5)

7 Small inflammati­on on the skin (6)

8 Knitted hat (6) 13 Megaphone (10) 16 Uneven, spasmodic (9) 17 Naked runner (8) 18 Summerhous­e (6) 20 Papier-mâché animal filled with Christmas treats (6)

21 Alter slightly (6)

23 Clutch (5)

25 Grotto (4)

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