CRYPTIC DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cruel remark near pop group to be recorded in black and white (3,4,2,5) 10 Rope in a tangle outdoors (4-3)

11 Democrat struck racist as extreme (7)

12 Rides out front and turn up again (10)

13 and 23-across Rescue crew fear accident in elevator (4,4)

15 Remains muddle-headed in terms of beers drunk (6) 17 Religious leader in parts of the Torah, etc (8) 19 Nation ill-disposed to bwanas? (8)

20 Each of them were reduced to inconvenience (6)

23 See 13-across

24 A strong soup turned into beef dish (10)

27 Have a difference of opinion and leave the military parade (4,3) 28 Resistance captured by savage’s allies (7)

29 Up for auction or ready for demolition? (5,3,6)

DOWN

2 Turn over to be stupendously reduced (5) 3 Choose the one to sketch drinking tubes (4,6)

4 Mars, for example, board game in hospital wing (3,3) 5 Held idol after desecration of Indian city (3,5)

6 and 26-down Busiest time to rake up rubbish around the hood, oddly enough (4,4)

7 Made chair trap an old man (9)

8 Half the edges on trunk were the most flush (7) 9 Nag when sounding husky (6)

14 Fee paid for working a minor hour (10)

16 If a bad lot turned out to be somewhat yobbish (3,2,1,3)

18 Doctors stun with hankering to pick apart (8) 19 Blackhead and lurid boils keep fellow in infection (4,3) 21 Say no to rubbish! (6) 22 Note at the base of toilet and bath scrubber (6) 25 Pronounced reduction in weight (5)

26 See 6-down