DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Try out underground projects on Louise Brown and Co (4-4,6)
9 Design expert for the month before speaker (9) 10 Husband adopted the right style (5)
11 Mix liquids in jug (4) 12 Gourmet garden feature holds roast nuts (10) 14 Hospital worker embraces the fashionable left (8)
15 State member admitted to getting amongst the beer (6)
17 Chief backing for the deity Pan’s counterpart (3,3) 19 Timid leader fled, taking a month to make the crossing (8)
22 Brought down above the seat of power, we hear (10) 23 Turn kitty back (4) 26 Remnant at the heart of beautiful people (5) 27 Working over pie at work (9)
28 Brood about attacking drinkers who take that last desperate remedy (6,2,6)
DOWN
1 Daily changes of time before the middle of the month (5)
2 Slice of fresh scone holds it up (7)
3 Rodent climbing over crop (4)
4 Charger in lager and snake in the grass (8) 5 Carpet sailor took up during social work? (6) 6 Brass tacks behind file (6,4)
7 Monstrosity of a stye, perhaps? (7)
8 Partisan died in Teheran rioting (8)
13 Medley for playing on smart set (10)
14 Express clearly may start one’s journey (3,5)
16 Tan detail on tan cow (8) 18 Hold sway and pair come out alive (7)
20 Smut of the ear filling parts of the ear (7)
21 Said to touch on clasp (6) 24 Smooth the papers (5) 25 Lure one into club (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Welfare system (6,8) 9 Bones in the spinal column (9)
10 Freight (5)
11 Thickening made of butter and flour (4)
12 Trainee (10)
14 Tube inserted in the body (8)
15 Picture theatre (6)
17 Food cupboard (6) 19 Plain, unsophisticated (8) 22 Energise, enliven (10) 23 Bridge (4)
26 Spanish red wine (5) 27 Disinfect (9)
28 Foolish pursuit of the unattainable (4-5,5)
DOWN
1 Cut off, detach (5)
2 Lap (7)
3 Declare, assert (4) 4 Fragments from an exploding shell (8)
5 Small stone fruit (6) 6 Change one’s mind (10) 7 Pâté cooked in an earthenware vessel (7)
8 Tip off, give notice (8) 13 North-eastern American states (3,7)
14 Coal mine (8) 16 Stronghold (8)
18 Pasta squares with savoury fillings (7) 20 Powdered red pepper (7) 21 Painting made on fresh plaster (6)
24 Sister’s daughter (5) 25 Bluish-white metal (4)