DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Removal of clothing in the space between two flights on the runway (7,5)

10 Rumba danced to Moonshadow (5)

11 Roast in changing room during foul weather (9) 12 Prized employee whose performance justifies halo with those in charge (10) 13 and 23-across Almost successful attempt to be close to young woman (4,4) 15 Time beat rebel three times (6)

17 Reserve steadies play (3,5)

19 Passes on caves and morasses (8)

20 Poems, as sent back to a Black Sea port (6)

23 See 13 Ac

24 Heads of the congregation positioning Ray among the front runners (3,7)

27 Caught inside with violent racist on drugs (9) 28 Respond to bending ear before court (5)

29 Perhaps a questioner gets five cents worth of bread (12)

DOWN

2 Light beam directed on the road (5)

3 Sketch a cartridge for practice but get no results (4,1,5)

4 Managed to reverse bank contract (6)

5 Tipsier drunk died after becoming sparkling (8) 6 and 26-down Butcher rooster minutes before gents (4,4)

7 Ring twitches with the sounds of speech (9)

8 Run rings around and around middle clown (6) 9 Crop up at last-minute meet (6)

14 In changing diaper, I act in the interests of the child’s health (10)

16 Listen in on work under adverse conditions (9) 18 Downer deviates in another way (8)

19 Old man cracking nut (6) 21 Dicky seats hold small amount of property (6) 22 Can rip off offspring (6) 25 Duck commercial during the day before (5)

26 See 6-down

QUICK

ACROSS

1 Inline skates (6-6) 10 Having three dimensions (5)

11 Mementos (9) 12 Docklands (10)

13 Domed area in a church (4)

15 Masses of flying insects (6)

17 Man of letters (8) 19 Skilfully evade (8) 20 Sacred Hindu river (6) 23 Deride (4)

24 Shy person at a party (10) 27 Admitted into a group through a series of ceremonies (9)

28 Putt that an opponent concedes needn’t be made (5)

29 Bubbly (12)

DOWN

2 Eye socket (5)

3 Tearful (10)

4 Have recourse to (6) 5 Measure of volume (8) 6 Unfathomable (4) 7 Mottled effect using dabs of paint (9)

8 Frowns (6)

9 Compliance (6)

14 One who has lost movement and feeling in the lower body (10) 16 Habit-forming (9) 18 Stoppered bottle for pouring wine (8)

19 Pinnacle (6)

21 Piercing cry (6)

22 Goo, muck (6)

25 Lady (5)

26 Petty quarrel (4)