DOUBLE CROSSWORD
ACROSS CRYPTIC
1 Can openers swallow oil designed for stomach pain? (5)
4 Sideshow occupation is an honest business! (4,5) 9 Leo admits individual is communication channel (7) 10 Storm the leg side during revolution (7)
11 Politicians ordered means test (9)
13 Useless object held writer back (5)
14 Snare position with a little magazine (7) 16 Circulates contentious affairs (6)
18 Girl in a denim outfit (6) 20 Badly spelt – ie a long letter (7)
23 Stroke cheerleader in new suit (5)
24 Distressed and hurt in car accident (3-3-3)
26 Tote bag of the elderly into foyer (4-3)
27 The rack is truer to form (7)
28 Performed a nice turn up in the air (9)
29 Lived in Germany and raised mark (5)
DOWN
1 Porter’s rule for making salad (8)
2 Australian animal grasped the vine (5)
3 Social centre behind tank (7)
4 and 27-down Stir up buff with gambler’s game (3,3) 5 Uncontrollable as ironsides on the mainland (11)
6 Poisons speech with warning signs (7)
7 Note meant making amends (9)
8 Matters when flat tyres lose contents (6)
12 Hill came on a sort of depression (11)
15 Clever clogs upsets meal carts (5,4)
17 Fingertip rudely enters without one to put it back in (8)
19 Misery of the French couple (7)
21 Redoing parts that were passed over (7)
22 Six shun works of the deity (6)
25 Path of detour changed in the end (5)
27 See 4-down
QUICK ACROSS
1 Sag (5)
4 Stamp collecting (9) 9 Saturday and Sunday (7) 10 The last Moorish kingdom in Spain (7)
11 River and state in the central US (9)
13 Train in military procedures (5)
14 Stone found in Egypt in 1799, and used to decipher hieroglyphics (7)
16 Set fire to (6)
18 The film industry (6) 20 Wandering from place to place (7)
23 Bizarrely unconventional (5)
24 Wrongdoer (9)
26 Slight illness (7) 27 Believer in nature spirits (7)
28 Severely scolded (9) 29 Harmonious sounds (5)
DOWN
1 Economic deterioration (8) 2 Large body of water (5) 3 Ostensible motive, excuse (7)
4 Seedcase of a legume (3) 5 Items used in a recipe (11) 6 Desert, leave behind (7) 7 Extremely thin (9)
8 Annual (6)
12 Deposits on a cave floor (11)
15 Tiny amount (9) 17 Delighted (8)
19 Basic chemical substance (7)
21 Communist theory (7) 22 Design of inlaid tiles or glass (6)
25 Zodiacal sign of the Ram (5)
27 Tot up (3)