DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Iced joint in flawless beauty treatment (8) 5 Bother repulsing wrong one with good looks (6) 10 Compile an analysis of copper (9) 11 Knotty problem untangling ropes (5) 12 Tear a strip off business student in terminal (7) 13 Checks sides of thigh with verrucas (7) 14 Prime one’s weapon for sudden attack (6) 16 Secretary issues return for recreation (7) 19 Brute in dispute with popular Roman leader (7) 21 Flirt with bowler during sporting contest (4,2) 25 Purged organisation to accept airhead’s promotion (7) 26 Head band for first of players to enter ski lodge (7) 28 Budget for African leader reversing levy (5) 29 Latest lie spread by broadcaster (9) 30 Howlers top off troublesome children (6) 31 South African practices with barbecued meat (8)
DOWN
1 Common folk solve a clue after fizzy drink (8) 2 Fix up-and-coming cover girl (7) 3 Concern doubled with a beverage (5) 4 Isolated half the time when raised in repetitive learning (6) 6 Dimmer operator dunks evil woman (3,6) 7 Quack remedy is in no way strange (7) 8 Dwell on skinhead with some length of hair (6) 9 Rather vague in dates (7) 15 Girl at bar dancing to rock (9) 17 The opposite of how poetry is written? (7) 18 Names article written in a fit of spite (8) 20 Routine haul set up in the stern (7) 22 Marked to be getting off one’s chest (7) 23 Kind of shade cover for worker (6) 24 Moulding unit into plastic coats (6) 27 Finally dropped behind in the mountains (5)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Provide with inhabitants (8) 5 Preserve after death (6) 10 Come to a head (9) 11 Repair and update (5) 12 Tiredness (7) 13 Centre of US auto manufacturing (7) 14 Apart from (6) 16 In proportion (3,4) 19 Credit to (7) 21 Spittle (6) 25 Stalker (7) 26 Deprive of ecclesiastical status (7) 28 Spiral (5) 29 Belittle, disparage (9) 30 Long angry speech (6) 31 Without foundation (8)
DOWN
1 Child’s dummy (8) 2 Prudent, expedient (7) 3 Fibbing (5) 4 Make a journey (6) 6 Authorised suspensions of activity (9) 7 Insult (7) 8 Change through random genetic alterations (6) 9 Lush vegetation (7) 15 Nonplussed (9) 17 Thrust out (7) 18 Lack of light (8) 20 Device on an aircraft’s wing that reduces drag (7) 22 Set apart, cut off (7) 23 Consequence, outcome (6) 24 West African nation (6) 27 Baroque musical form (5)