DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
1 Lover’s talk of pudding and trifles? (5,8)
10 Spoke at length about poor cadet’s end (9)
11 Taken to court with the last of the shoe leather (5) 12 Ancient Celtic tribe rocks Ulster (5)
13 Reptile and gorilla at odds (9)
14 One above reproach is in the bag, bloody bully! (6,3) 16 Clobber politician behind shabby hut (5)
17 Bring in small screen actor (5)
19 Hotel to save trouble if tries new methods (9) 22 Silent number lies abandoned before bender (9)
23 Use piano case for an old photo (5)
25 Serious help behind a good man (5)
26 Stunned by sweat created by rugby play (9) 28 Hold firm and present no change in America (4,2,7)
DOWN
2 West and East recycled garbage (5)
3 Keep up! I have become hard to follow (7)
4 Every second insect in snare (3)
5 Drunken hints during the game (11)
6 Night is impairing vision
(7)
7 Rage expressed over insult to elderly relative (5-4) 8 Modern-day spray mist comes clean (6)
9 Carried up way too much (2,4)
13 Log cheap air flight in island chain (11)
15 Vicar carelessly included hairstyle in wedding serenade (9)
17 One boy is quite sincere, by the sound of it (6) 18 Machine operator altered process (7)
20 Caller to use mask when concealing object (7)
21 Is suggestive of passionate kisses (6) 24 Puritan finds pint offensive (5)
27 Bird found stuck in the mud (3)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Too gradual to be discerned (13)
10 Unit of astronomical distance (5,4)
11 Former Italian colony in North Africa (5)
12 Hot drink (5)
13 Book of religious instruction (9)
14 Event combining swimming, cycling and running (9)
16 Retinue (5)
17 Imitate (5)
19 Final set of demands (9) 22 Pedestrian tunnel (9) 23 Baked meat (5)
25 Neck warmer (5) 26 Instinctive, nonrational (9)
28 Landmark at Trafalgar Square in London (7,6)
DOWN
2 Conjuring (5)
3 Passage taken from a book (7)
4 Actor’s signal (3) 5 Inflammation of the abdominal lining (11)
6 Black market (7)
7 Oil, grease (9)
8 Evoke (6)
9 Fish that migrate upstream to spawn (6) 13 Computation, estimate
(11)
15 Instant, occurring without delay (9)
17 Creamy dessert (6) 18 Containers of wine (7) 20 Warlike, military (7) 21 Speak indistinctly in a low voice (6)
24 General principle (5) 27 Spasmodic twitch (3)