DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
1 Empty talk is a pitfall for applause? (8)
6 Quiet tune for a duo (4) 10 Sloppy seams in outfit (2,1,4)
11 Akin to being ecstatic after winter’s end (7)
12 End of news to wind up broadcast (4)
13 Literary group flourishes with implant (10) 15 Unseemly orders intend to shield the established church (8)
16 To snare men she spruced up (6)
19 Not so much working class (6)
21 Lard once used as a kitchen filter (8)
24 Set down and had forty winks (7,3)
25 Prize can and tin opener (4)
27 Rodents manage crime waves (7)
28 Making a profit from open mesh fabric (7) 29 Yield at the sound of the pip (4)
30 Wordplay becomes inferior with advancing years (8)
DOWN
2 Academic made money after the end of school (7) 3 Displeased some with defendant’s answer (4) 4 Taking stock of whispering in the trees (8)
5 Repeat the usual nonsense (6)
6 Turn up my sandal for a comemmoration of Christ (4,6)
7 Meddle with untried device (7)
8 Don’t move a muscle but fabricate nevertheless (3,5) 9 Small current retained by selected dynamo (4) 14 Comic place reassigned to henchman (10)
17 Eight are jostling for patrimony (8)
18 Prisoner made to pay by being jailed (8)
20 Misfortune of Christian leader to be surrounded by terrible rogues (7)
22 Being boring to grind on ineptly (7)
23 Braved disaster in part of speech (6)
24 Threads are flops (4) 26 Heads up to take one’s breath away (4)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Power to produce the desired result (8)
6 Scorch (4)
10 Navigation instrument (7) 11 Upbringing, training (7) 12 Sod (4)
13 Horseman (10) 15 Shopkeeper (8)
16 Create, devise (6) 19 Perpetrate (6) 21 Emanation, issuance (8) 24 Having five sides (10) 25 Musical composition (4) 27 Guess, conjecture (7) 28 Quantify (7)
29 Avoid (4)
30 Hymn of mourning (8)
DOWN
2 Quick ballroom dance (7) 3 Muslim religious leader (4) 4 Old wares (8)
5 Over there (6)
6 Examine searchingly (10) 7 Vituperative (7)
8 Abstruse, arcane (8) 9 Fastened with stitches (4) 14 Soothsaying, fortunetelling (10)
17 Element also known as wolfram (8)
18 Mortician who preserves bodies with chemicals (8) 20 Hereditary sovereign (7) 22 Seize, sequester (7) 23 Humble (6)
24 Cuban currency (4) 26 Conceited (4)