DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
1 Rips off some trouser alterations (5,7)
10 Instrument to blot first degree in business (7) 11 Launch ace inside landing place (7)
12 Cross behind guerrilla at the top (4)
13 Industrial plant accidentally lost skewer (10) 15 Allow in regular line to casino table (8)
16 Hope for unbridled praise (6)
19 Return of crazy medicine man with acre of land in the Arctic (6)
20 Throw a tantrum as a thief made to pinch a sign (4,1,3)
23 Controls an intersection and lights upon (4,6) 25 Queer fish kept going back on the house (4)
27 Fish is shot in the arm (7) 28 Some spirits embracing the author of Exodus as a present-day traveller (7) 29 Elite bunch courted and put to death (12)
DOWN
2 Clown pulls rabbit without little child of five (9) 3 True-hearted politician is in a small minority in parliament (4)
4 Calculated cattish terminal velocity in all innocence (8) 5 Jumble sale contained very soft fruit (6)
6 Swedish culture comes behind slime in some respects (4,6)
7 Supermom gutted on hearing slander (5)
8 Weaken and say I am two of a kind (6)
9 Refresher course for Friday’s boss (6)
14 Feel ill will towards ursine mother with skin parasites (4,6)
17 Gather floor covering was not flowing with milk and honey (9)
18 Head voice of latest composition (8)
19 Floored from seat of power to the audience (6) 21 Score with time left before preliminary final (6) 22 Loud and true alarm (6) 24 Green as the greenback one found in the road (5) 26 Zimbabwean capital built up every other South African (4)
Yesterday’s solutions:
Acoss: 1 Vice-chancellor. 9 Toddled. 10 Impetus. 11 Have an edge. 12 Pipe. 14 Agreed. 15 On stilts. 17 Dramatic. 19 Starve. 22 Curl. 23 Stentorian. 26 Epitome. 27 Lowdown. 28 Enclosed orders.
Down: 1 Vetch. 2 Cadaver. 3 Collateral. 4 Addled. 5 Cringing. 6 Lope.
7 On trial. 8 Assessee. 13 State of war. 14 Adicted. 16 Listless. 18 Arraign. 20 Rhizome. 21 Angled. 24 Nones. 25 Foil.
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Farmer giving up some of his harvest as rent (5-7) 10 Egg white (7)
11 Foot lever (7)
12 Night (4) 13 Impermanence (10) 15 Chemist’s shop (8) 16 Stagnation (6)
19 Bumpy, rough (6) 20 Illuminated by broad beams of light (8) 23 Remarkable occurrence (10)
25 Coffee shop (4) 27 Animate, imbue (7) 28 Clumsy (7)
29 Pampered, cosseted (12)
DOWN
2 Sleep over winter (9) 3 Unimportant remnant (4) 4 Business agreement (8) 5 Excursion (6)
6 Forecast (10) 7 Radioactive rare gas (5) 8 Poor (slang) (4,2)
9 Niche (6)
14 Originating in the distant past (10)
17 Muslim state (9) 18 Legendary city of gold (2,6)
19 Not remunerated (6) 21 Fashionable (6)
22 Salad vegetable (6) 24 English racecourse (5) 26 Slide out of control (4)
Yesterday’s solutions:
Across: 1 Coincidentally. 9 Needles. 10 Grapple. 11 Saturnalia. 12 Tofu. 14 Crafty. 15 Heavyset. 17 Suburbia., 19 Drivel. 22 Peck. 23 Safeguards. 26 Oblique. 27 Luddite. 28 Bipartisanship.
Down: 1 Cents. 2 Inertia. 3 Coloratura. 4 Dismay. 5 Negligee. 6 Adam. 7 Leprous. 8 Rebuttal. 13 Overburden. 14 Cesspool. 16 Filament. 18 Bacilli. 20 Varnish. 21 Realms. 24 Sheep. 25 Aqua.