DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
1 Executioners provided returning rounds by the courtyard (6,5)
9 Shanty about bail-jumping fish (7)
10 Early capital of rich even involved contracts in return (7)
11 Thought to be transcribing codes in blood (10)
12 On relieved to be dry (4)
14 Marching on foot, partly (6)
16 Want to disfigure CBD? (8)
18 Expatriate almost half financial aid (8)
19 Old money in Africa (6)
22 Barrister starts suing his own kind (4)
23 The crowd present, an hour after nine, practice ballet (10)
26 Proceeds from centre of street scene (7)
27 Do him in after plotting with man’s relative (7)
28 Nature’s star turn in eateries (11)
DOWN
1 Unmasking lifelong criminal (5)
2 Jewish leader rents TV antenna (6,4)
3 Men tug out the mace (6)
4 Setting the scene to take in decade of punishment (8)
5 Makes money talk like the holders of the ashes (4)
6 Plunge into curling irons’ recreation (9)
7 Pretty stylish greeting (6)
8 Tawdry throw wrapped around eccentric (6)
13 Greenkeeper smeared dung on arms (10)
15 Slip out before sweetheart found unintended by-product (5,4)
17 Cursed one in national song and one following (8)
18 Run and see collision to make certain (6)
20 Taking darned area in as redress (6)
21 Drenched female sheep (6)
24 Zeroes in on church service (5)
25 Closes off dens (4)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Oppressed, exploited (11)
9 Frugal, spartan (7)
10 Watch (7)
11 Indian Ocean island nation (10)
12 Polynesian drink prepared from plant roots (4)
14 Yearn, hanker (6)
16 Doctor’s profession (8)
18 Certain to succeed (4-4)
19 Myth (6)
22 Sunken fence (2-2)
23 Native, resident (10)
26 Mosque’s tower (7)
27 Heart-warming, poignant (7)
28 January 1 (3,5,3)
DOWN
1 Bird lure (5)
2 Sorcery (10)
3 Fishing gear (6)
4 Device recording the distance a car travels (8)
5 Panache, style (4)
6 Report, account (9)
7 Sickness in the stomach (6)
8 Adulterate (6) 13 Probability (10)
15 Temple of Athena on the Acropolis in Athens (9)
17 Woman with dark brown hair (8)
18 Connive, intrigue (6)
20 Vacillate (6)
21 Profession, occupation (6)
24 Friendship, cordiality (5)
25 Large black bird (4)