DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Call for shock coverage in the lab (4,3)

5 Tested power unit in winter vehicle (7) 9 Clergyman has no head for crime (5)

10 Rogue to shout, interrupting extremely silly comedian (9)

11 Wine producer deals with invader around the end of May (8)

12 In favour of wearing article of protective clothing (5)

14 Get back, for example, in the shower (6)

15 Alien is an improbable winner (8)

18 Ringing man behind the plot (8)

20 Sound advice to loosen tap! (6)

23 Scrapes together material for playboys (5) 25 Carried out and put to death (8)

27 Meal didn’t start without board from publican (9) 28 Individual after ounce of clean air (5)

29 Tenuous source of funds after the close of business (7)

30 Con man retiring before the rest get busy (7)

DOWN

1 Live with Australian boyfriend (4)

2 Making fast when giving a beating (7)

3 Rubbish had an odd tinge when freeloading (9)

4 A car’s smashed and left by villain (6)

5 Catch the eye and refuse to comply (5,3)

6 Formal talks about Mediterranean state (5) 7 Were amongst the old, being badly let down (7) 8 Swinger teed off, skipping several classes (10)

13 Fitting connections to holdings (10)

16 Prescribed by instructor to occupy vacation (9)

17 Run down eagle or albatross? (5,3)

19 Question forebear split obliquely (7) 21 Revolutionary source of cigar (7)

22 Guide bristled about the rubble (6)

24 Sectarian leader driven off mount (5)

26 Article in bright colour turned up at a high price (4)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Tank of water used to flush a toilet (7)

5 Circus performer (7) 9 Knife-edged (5)

10 Wooing, romance (9) 11 Unexpected good fortune (8)

12 Informal or vulgar language (5)

14 Burrow (6)

15 Boa constrictor (8) 18 Compound found in egg yolks, used as a food supplement (8)

20 Grab (6)

23 Noise of a pig (5) 25 Intermediate zone of mixed characteristics (4,4) 27 Fair, unprejudiced (9) 28 Aristocrat, peer (5) 29 Visual monstrosity (7) 30 Reap (7)

DOWN

1 Select to play a role (4) 2 Large seal (3,4) 3 Appropriate in the circumstances (9)

4 Sweet secretion of flowers (6)

5 Curved like an eagle’s beak (8)

6 Council charges (5) 7 Persian Gulf nation (7) 8 Mapping of surface features (10)

13 Projection growing from a cave floor (10)

16 Receptacle (9) 17 Camouflage (8)

19 Wrinkle, crease (7) 21 Quiver (7)

22 Well-being (6)

24 Trunk of the human body (5)

26 Departed (4)