DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
1 Harm poet and his mangled figure of speech (5,8)
10 Fish in a three legged race (3)
11 A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)
12 Deputy head hammed it up and was kicked downstairs (7)
13 Stylish member in neat outfit (7)
14 Jewish leader with Middle Eastern yak (6) 16 Element split into many parts (8)
19 Broker to get help wheeling around inside metro system (8)
20 Credit fast growing trades (6)
23 Stout reversible cheese cloth (7)
25 Drink and laugh to be surrounded by local characters (7)
27 Sound so sore after touching up smell (11) 28 One empty room in the wing (3)
29 Cuts dead from frosty road sides (4-9)
DOWN
2 I criticise a wicked Pakistani centre (9)
3 Lift and spot marker during late tackle (5) 4 Complaint might include youth (6)
5 Half-dead when packed into coaches and cars for resale (5-3)
6 Behind the stake with queen and king of the French overthrown (9) 7 Love for every middle class work of music (5) 8 Submit to loving (6)
9 Initial audit trail took year through lack of interest (6) 15 Very quickly part of a motion of support (2,1,6) 17 Too drunk to not be broadcasting? (3,3,3) 18 Monarchs strayed from speech in Switzerland (8) 19 Induce them to take too many drugs on the way (6) 21 Thoughtful, only mean and heartless (6) 22 Entrance with gold cake (6)
24 Ringbearer arranging for hairstyle (5)
26 Looked over, with a view to stealing recording about sea sickness (5)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Dictionary maker (13) 10 Winter sports equipment (3)
11 Make tame (11)
12 Fine spray of particles (7) 13 Shrink, diminish (7) 14 Vienna’s river (6) 16 Provide support from below (8)
19 Get off a horse (8) 20 Develop, grow into (6) 23 Enthusiastic expression of approval (7)
25 Great river of northern South America (7) 27 Meat-eating (11) 28 Climbing plant (3) 29 Exhibition of an artist’s life work (13)
DOWN
2 Those leaving to settle abroad (9)
3 Pakistani river (5)
4 Alloy used for gilding (6) 5 Inhabitant (8)
6 Special advantage of the elite (9)
7 Large African antelope (5) 8 Home of the Norse gods (6)
9 Sea separating Greece and Turkey (6) 15 Hairdresser’s appliance (4,5)
17 Composer of Peter and the Wolf (9)
18 Oily, greasy (8) 19 Illustrate, portray (6) 21 Place name derived from that of a person (6)
22 Prairie wolf (6)
24 Assent (5)
26 Small photograph placed inside another (5)