DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Give a shellacking in two languages (6,6)
9 Cocktail dress taken up with skill (7)
10 Mark of royalty to send back first-class beer (7) 11 Sporting grounds to dock Arsenal combination (6) 12 Command to execution squad to begin home heating? (4,4)
14 Winds of holiday fiction? (10)
15 and 17-across Train to speak lovingly about moonshine (4,4) 19 Expressing rage by sneers at relatives (5-5) 22 Wrap up working hours in the finish (8)
23 Adjusted dosage for old salt (3,3)
26 Vermin included in motley collection and reproduced without permission (7)
27 Sacking and ashes in fashion (7)
28 Distressing to listen to general tendency (5-7)
DOWN
1 Press with the last word to be used in deliveries? (7) 2 Steamier parts of the Arab nation (8)
3 and 25-down Toast repeated pull-up (4,4)
4 Of little significance that her applier failed (10)
5 Myth brought Middle English, for example, to close (6)
6 Oddly steal swimmer while looking out for number one (7)
7 Some programme came up with an Austen novel (4) 8 The poor harbour turned back to seafront (4,4) 13 Everyone with fuller figures, but not a specialist (3-7)
14 Make an early start on epochal changes of the economic sort (2,6) 16 Aquatic equipment creating a wet risk (5,3) 18 Awfully verbose remark (7)
20 Kind of acquaintance to be almost asleep (7) 21 Speaker who is skilled in the laboratory (6)
24 Group of workers gathering on the outskirts (4)
25 See 3-down
QUICK ACROSS
1 Gramophone (6,6) 9 Source of coir and copra (7)
10 Roman god of the sea (7) 11 Make-up, character (6) 12 Playful banter (8) 14 Tropical estate of trees or crops (10)
15 Shout (4)
17 Floating platform (4) 19 Large island off the east coast of Africa (10) 22 Undeviating (8)
23 Large choir (6) 26 Dramaturgy (7) 27 Lassitude (7)
28 Tinea infection between the toes (8,4)
DOWN
1 Type of soft Italian cheese (7)
2 Real, substantial (8)
3 Duty list (4)
4 Having five sides (10) 5 Foreign female boarder who does housework (2,4) 6 Teach, instruct (7) 7 Religious image (4) 8 Seller of gems, bracelets and rings (8)
13 Connection, fastener (10) 14 Leech, sponger (8) 16 Japanese pinball game (8)
18 Ardent, passionate (7) 20 Open to bribery (7) 21 Small handgun (6) 24 Bonded peasant (4) 25 Moose (4)