DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Pants when rocking the cribs (8)
6 Instant credit (4) 10 Presenter to put on shorts inside (5) 11 Disagreeable trace in number of fruit (9)
12 Where the high seas are, for the most part (2,3,4) 13 Run away as insect left gazelle, perhaps (5)
14 Shot wrapping up one cut in a series of films (7) 16 Inferior to guinea pig? (7) 18 Press to release bills (7) 20 Turn off alarm and turn around turning fish (5,2) 22 Regrets adopting tail end of directions (5)
24 Fixed bedtime in lands away from home (6,3) 26 Frantic waves at speeder (9)
27 Renal function may pick up (5)
28 Give birth to hairy beast (4)
29 Lawyer working on treaty (8)
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2 Call and reverse call to possums (9)
3 Short winter season becomes even shorter (5) 4 Greedy to keep middle man in the country (7)
5 Little time for extra helping (7)
6 Dash in the board may be sniffed out (9)
7 Capital atmosphere amongst company (5)
8 Cut off commercial division (6)
9 Take amiss and have to be posted again (6)
15 Foreman accepted model vehicle’s handling problem (9)
17 Undercover work posing a problem between Eastern capitals (9)
18 Show off to a degree when keeping in trim (6) 19 Insult a native about product of the grape (7) 20 Division of meetings went off without one (7) 21 Recording the heartless zero (6)
23 Label is lining inside fabric (5)
25 Roof worker left in middle of row (5)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Concluding speech (8) 6 Southeast Asian nation (4) 10 Gather into a ruffle (5) 11 Catapult (9)
12 Alloy (9)
13 Chimney cleaner (5) 14 Authentic (7)
16 Sewer’s finger protector (7)
18 Car’s steel frame (7) 20 Sea between Russia and Iran (7)
22 Long-barrelled firearm (5)
24 Good faith, honest intentions (4,5)
26 Card game for one (9) 27 Spanish red wine (5) 28 Heath (4)
29 Christmas season (8)
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2 Lung infection (9) 3 Exudate from trees, used to make rubber (5)
4 Hand signal (7) 5 Apparent, manifest (7) 6 Movement and provision of armed forces (9)
7 Earthy pigment (5) 8 Leapt (6)
9 Essential commodity (6) 15 Investigating officer (9) 17 Cloth used to cover the eyes (9)
18 Holy oil (6)
19 Financial aid (7)
20 Keep secret (7) 21 Capital of the Bahamas (6)
23 Manuscript made of folded sheets (5) 25 Foremost (5)