DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
1 Goad first girl and boy in a Biblical story (8,3) 9 Overhead nimbus formation covering many areas (7)
10 Knight and company reflected on the wind (7) 11 Cruel product of the lasers (9)
12 Have qualms about uniform (5)
13 Lets us squabble and scrap (6)
15 Deputy collars lone crook for brutality (8)
17 A riot or commotion over song (8)
19 Teach from outside little home in the mountains (6) 23 Heading out of toilet, having left nothing behind (5)
24 Prevailing winds stir a mess with a lot of paper (9) 26 Ball is turning and gripping on unknown courses (7)
27 Talk aimlessly with mother after having anaesthetic (7)
28 Battling crucial wars with mill machinery (8,3)
DOWN
1 People’s Front as well as a Chinese symbol (5) 2 Spoken about fragment in satellite’s path (7)
3 Ripped panties to be free of a part of the foot (6)
4 Hit man joining two fools with the kind-hearted (8)
5 A ruler’s working like a dream (7)
6 Small number before court, with lunar activity during the night (9)
7 Is it important for pig to sit on porkpie, for example? (2,4)
8 Murmer and fib to poor labourer (6)
14 Wise guy set store in scale model (5,4)
16 Is it a rum confection? (8) 17 Dull-witted have nothing but empty employment (6) 18 Alfresco work functions are in (4-3)
20 Over the top in rough bush spas (3,4)
21 Brother interrupted tempo and tone of music (6) 22 Master carrying weight of vegetable (6)
25 Will wind up downhearted (5)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Noble and generous (11) 9 Increase in size (7) 10 Good physical condition (7)
11 Native of Kiev (9)
12 Acute abdominal pain (5) 13 Foaming (6)
15 Male horse (8)
17 Jewish holiday (8) 19 Widely cultivated tropical flower (6)
23 Android (5) 24 Ambiguous, open to question (9)
26 Pilot’s compartment (7) 27 Illicit liquor (7) 28 Impediment (11)
DOWN
1 Grinding tooth (5) 2 Decoration added to food (7)
3 Acid found in vinegar (6) 4 Having no end (8) 5 Relating to light and sight (7)
6 Lobsters, crabs and oysters (9)
7 Snub (6)
8 American term for a garbage bin (6)
14 Italian veal stew, in tomato sauce (4,5) 16 University term (8) 17 Unauthorised use of copyrighted material (6) 18 Eight-armed mollusc (7) 20 Pasta squares containing meat (7)
21 Flood, downpour (6) 22 French-speaking Canadian province (6) 25 Part of the lower intestine (5)