The Star Late Edition

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Small wood camp where one may sleep overnight (7,5)

9 The last politician bound to be offloaded (7)

10 Player hanging around bolted store (7)

11 Pictures some form of ageism (6)

12 Stresses heartless extremism before stages of developmen­t (8)

14 He gets entangled with horse hair in a scene of betrayal (10)

16 Policeman holding nothing in prison cell (4) 18 Cruise by the electronic book (4)

19 Fine battle plan was slightly shabby (4-6) 22 Target to buy and sell off centrepiec­e (5-3)

23 Fool taken in by gamble on hound (6)

26 Chopper turned over quarry to investigat­e (7) 27 Little one consumed behind light (7)

28 Pretty standard to have freedom of movement in the plant (3,2,3,4)

DOWN

1 Shades of the old picture where an irrational number plunged into the ocean (5) 2 The whole world in just one poem? (8)

3 Flesh of the son incorporat­ed daughter (4) 4 Germinate cactus left by military groups (10)

5 Indian with a quiet pain (6) 6 Troop leader organised game on aircraft (9) 7 Fancywork with quarter chicken piece (6)

8 Herb put empty years into craft shop (6)

13 Ptolemy managed to include fellows in his work (10)

15 Main adult resort in Indian state (5,4) 17 European capital turned into food (8)

18 Desperate battle to get medication (6)

20 Spice girl goes after your head (6)

21 Native American blowing smoke rings midair (6) 24 Stonewall, without one wanting to begin (5)

25 Was previously in detention centre (4)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Uprising (12)

9 Judgments, findings (7) 10 Applied externally to the body (7)

11 Short-sighted (6) 12 Centre of a dartboard (5,3)

14 Branch of mathematic­s (10)

16 Remain (4)

18 Quarry, game (4) 19 Castrate (10)

22 Rabble (8)

23 Develop, grow into (6) 26 Source of nicotine (7) 27 Guilelessn­ess, simplicity (7)

28 Process of housing people elsewhere (12)

DOWN

1 Ice house (5)

2 Brightness of the day (8) 3 Coarse file (4)

4 Fancier, devotee (10)

5 Tip over (6)

6 Group of musicians (9) 7 Black Sea peninsula (6) 8 Drowsy (6)

13 Layer of frozen sub-soil (10)

15 Beyond words, indescriba­ble (9)

17 The Christmas season (8) 18 Equivalenc­e (6) 20 Cricket team (6)

21 Day nursery (6)

24 Open, public (5)

25 Leg joint (4)

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