DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
1 Created a stir about very noisy duties (7)
5 Begins English course for Chinese native (7)
9 Scoundrel has a strange urge to suck in oxygen (5)
10 Family is on later shifts (9)
11 Vehicle could be gold to rioting crowd, and lie in ruins (10)
12 Draw breath when malignity returns (4)
14 Sees red peril’s lacking a leader (6)
16 Scrubbing out remains of fire inside extension (7)
19 Turned in grave to bitterness (7)
20 To laze doesn’t suit enthusiast (6)
23 Copied in tape deck (4)
24 Written evidence of drivel deposited before retrial disbands (5,5)
27 Walk on the seashore came to a dead end in sea plane crash (9)
28 River in Hindustan (5)
29 Merit performance bagging silver for musical form (7)
30 Fierce female soldier retreated into hairstyle (7)
DOWN
1 Refuse to allow cycle on a road (4,4)
2 Not left up to par (5) 3 Second hand stalls being fair enough for bloodsuckers? (4,6)
4 Wipes out credit in advance payments (6) 5 Game to coat lead alloy with gilt material (4,4) 6 Crazy to stagger the other way (4)
7 Worked up for a moment in a state of elation (9) 8 Proceed with neverending stint of Christian teaching (6)
13 Shop keeping made others a pittance (10) 15 Bumped up age in serviceman’s upcoming experimental subject (6,3) 17 Bit backward to humble body of information (8) 18 Oddly set by heels over designers (8)
21 Profession to run at high speed (6)
22 He is accepted by top command (6)
25 Become rotten and stout, outside of dandified edges (5)
26 Transport toll on the island (4)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Passage selected from a larger work (7)
5 Die down (7)
9 Sudden unreasoning terror (5)
10 Herb (9)
11 Ornamental pendant light (10)
12 Read quickly (4) 14 Gradually develop (6) 16 Yellow or white-flowered bulb (7)
19 Vocation, task (7) 20 Large wine bottle (6) 23 Tidy (4)
24 Ardent supporter or devotee (10)
27 Pen (9)
28 Household fireplace (5) 29 Hick, yokel (7)
30 Slight illness (7)
DOWN
1 Anticipated (8)
2 Single-file dance (5) 3 Habitual criminal (10) 4 Titillate (6)
5 Engineer who determines boundaries (8)
6 Ray of light (4) 7 Inauguration, installation (9)
8 Straying from the right course (6)
13 Lying in the tropics (10) 15 Government by the few (9)
17 Flummox (8)
18 Powerless (8)
21 Snarl, tangle (6)
22 Itchy skin condition (6) 25 Quarrel (5)
26 Jab (4)