The Star Early Edition

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Infatuated principal having enough of stilettos (4,4,5)

10 Lacking order to a chic design (7)

11 Number night work as zero (7)

12 Joining the army without unit joining metal (9)

13 A long battle of the English (5)

14 Spread over the top of the head? (4)

15 Actor in the first row of seats? (8)

19 Youth may generate trouble (8)

20 Open to one glass of beer (4)

24 Nurse initially administer­ed dose and went ahead slowly (5)

26 Philosophe­r turned to realist (9)

27 Work hard and party, mostly in the back (7)

28 Eat some section baker shaved off (7)

29 Stratosphe­ric charge for bands’ accommodat­ion (9,4)

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2 Tee up late adjustment for shoulder pad (9)

3 Feedback on their serving of stew (6)

4 Used activism to give up as injured party (6)

5 Call fools in Malaysian capital (8)

6 Latrines turned one’s guts (8)

7 Prone to making things up (5)

8 Carries on after law overturned discharge (4,2)

9 Send to Coventry region for training (6)

16 Converted drab jet to a thing of beauty (5,4)

17 Ready money for Spooner’s joker bungle (4,4)

18 Rout out scale beneath upturned bunk (8)

19 Number of commandmen­ts set out in articles of faith (6)

21 Staggered by blood covering fish (6)

22 Raising support for every baby’s outfit (6)

23 Arouse excitable purist (4,2)

25 Street song about one in flight? (5)

QUICK

ACROSS

1 Boundary of a circle (13) 10 Endanger (7)

11 Giant American cactus (7) 12 Blizzard (9)

13 Brief letters (5)

14 Wish for (4)

15 Cover for a letter (8)

19 Mountains between the Black and Caspian seas (8)

20 The first man of the Bible (4)

24 Middle Eastern nation (5) 26 Internal logic and consistenc­y (9)

27 Pasta squares with meat or cheese fillings (7)

28 In name only (7) 29 Refreshed, restored with energy (13)

DOWN

2 Unrehearse­d, spontaneou­s (9)

3 Female equivalent of a bow (6)

4 Mature, softened by age (6)

5 Right of access through another’s land (8)

6 Bring into being (8) 7 Seashore (5)

8 Tasteless art (6)

9 Creamy dessert (6) 16 Law, statute (9)

17 Biscuit made of almonds and egg whites (8) 18 Courgette (8)

19 Cuban dictator (6)

21 Breakfast cereal (6) 22 Japanese religion (6)

23 Kind of elongated pumpkin (6)

25 Light entertainm­ent of songs and sketches (5)

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