DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Jokers, perhaps, spying lad fooling around with vehicle (7,5)

9 Descriptive term for petite figure cradling her head (7)

10 China structured amnesties so as to omit a Tibetan leader (7)

11 Flush with the previous day being in the fifties (5)

13 Retires or is disturbed by reveller (9)

14 Exchange views on the other side of the coin (8)

15 Small and sweet vegetable (4)

18 Surrounded by brand images, rejecting some (4)

19 Lag quietly rattling irons by the middle of term (8)

22 Screw up in rims to battle unconventional warfare (9)

23 Gulf in American leadership, beside ship (5)

25 Check that dodgy bet is in the bag (7)

26 Shackle Gibson behind streetcar (7)

28 Confusion of more unbridled hands being in a flutter (12)

DOWN

1 Appointed to hold a Maori dance (3)

2 Greek hero caught cold in the rising ocean (8)

3 Money earned from hobby (8)

4 First move in the force field (6)

5 Consumed about the Latin way to fly (6)

6 Record salesman can resolve unknown conflict (11)

7 Carve a larger slice of meat (4)

8 Unwelcome guest tossed out untried newcomer in the end (8)

12 Avid insiders integrate newfangled dressing (11)

14 Scourge when it’s raised during pursuit (8)

16 Pair distributed more to impresario (8)

17 Lark ceased moving when hanging on to top of a perch (8)

20 In due course, West African land becomes an East African (6)

21 Evil joined together to catch the headless devil (6)

24 Only fish that comes after lemon (4)

27 Opposed reducing income tax (3)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Worried, uneasy (12)

9 Contrition (7)

10 Small hard nodule on the body (7)

11 Tree with sap used to make syrup (5)

13 Liver disease (9)

14 Nuisance, annoyance (8)

15 Shabby, frayed (4)

18 Thin sheet of metal (4)

19 Side with, support (8)

22 Prohibit, forbid (9)

23 Melted together (5)

25 Flowering plant whose roots are used as a tonic (7)

26 Kind of Italian red wine (7)

28 Consequence, reaction (12)

DOWN

1 Goal, objective (3)

2 Misuses, debases (8)

3 Pachyderm with tusks (8)

4 Not including (6)

5 Meagre, insufficient (6)

6 Holidaymakers (11)

7 Pack to capacity (4)

8 Experienced, well-versed (8)

12 Tenacity (11)

14 Transgress, trespass (8)

16 Points of intersection of lines in a plane figure (8)

17 Messages scribbled on walls (8)

20 Stoat with white fur and a black-tipped tail (6)

21 Outdoor lunch (6)

24 Trickle, leak (4)

27 Religious sister (3)