The Star Early Edition

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 In favour of healthy return (6)

5 Fertiliser residue from smoking drugs (6)

10 Off base gold in centric form (9)

11 Fish may go on ice (5)

12 Checks off blood suckers (5)

13 Struggled to free her as a result (9)

14 Lead up to umpire getting into stride (7)

15 Model priest made gambling adviser (7)

17 Ancient founder demolished our slum (7)

20 Misgiving about bucking PC rules (7)

22 Pressing papers during free time (9)

24 Takes the lead from one side of the coin (5)

26 Solitary individual divides the two sides (5)

27 Celebrated gender lay in ruins (9)

28 Making sense to firm chap (6)

29 Essay about goal to be fashionabl­e (6)

DOWN

2 Use again when cloaked in secrecy, cleverly (7)

3 Provide against everyone going after lot of trees (9)

4 Stage special treat to captivate edgy housewife (7)

5 Puff about connection to sufferer (7)

6 Smack of discrimina­tion (5)

7 Performing opera in street haven (7)

8 First of the last and first to heel over (4)

9 Go over and erase her qualms (8)

14 Piece together top of paragraph and story (8)

16 Possibly a place to sit cane trash (9)

18 Reminder for me to double up and not fold (7)

19 Small vehicle rented for it’s colour (7)

20 Trick to keep the French in view (7)

21 Quietly left a character notice (7)

23 Lament network raising party drug (5)

25 Ugly finish in newly built set is an eyesore (4)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Punk’s hairstyle (6)

5 Fence stake (6)

10 Having eight sides (9)

11 Mature (5)

12 Dome-shaped ice cream dessert (5)

13 Office communicat­ions (9)

14 Deer meat (7)

15 Form an image in a mirror (7)

17 Cabal (7)

20 Versificat­ion (7)

22 Chief financial officer or minister (9)

24 Vagabond (5)

26 Repeatedly (5)

27 Doubt (9)

28 Japanese hostess (6)

29 German art songs (6)

DOWN

2 Padded footstool used as a seat (7)

3 Invader (9)

4 Male relative (7)

5 Compound such as starch, made of many repeated units (7)

6 Nurse (5)

7 Range, sweep (7)

8 Disentangl­e or arrange the hair (4)

9 Foot soldiers (8)

14 Career, calling (8)

16 Freezing of the extremitie­s (9)

18 Dramatics (7)

19 The largest land mass (7)

20 Sunshade (7)

21 Iridescent (7)

23 Cavity in the skull (5)

25 Half a quart (4)

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