DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
1 Spy bears some resemblance to a witness? (6-2)
5 Empty talk by a Welsh leader split one’s sides (6) 10 Gloomy listener is following doctor (5) 11 Reduced to having done the ironing? (9)
12 Shiner’s end stage posed a problem for the eyes (4-11) 13 Mark out again to be weeping blood (6)
14 Ply craft through hurried airforce show (7) 18 Petrolhead alarmed Cairo’s pedestrian (7) 20 Element of lionhearted lunch (6)
24 Chirped when the mailman came, but was just beaten (6,2,3,4)
26 Diet essential for one in a nomadic state (5,4) 27 Applaud deregulated condensed milk container (5)
28 Endlessly plot developing hate (6) 29 Israelite held British title in non-commercial beer (4-4)
DOWN
1 Overconcerned with book learning and education in the cupboard (8)
2 Union worker splashes up a road (7)
3 Old Italians spurning true readings (9)
4 Wineshop makes up the big end in an adobe structure (6)
6 Stand on head of union to remain undecided (5) 7 Secures exciting set, to be mobbed by supporters (7) 8 Most extensive section of the unconscious mind, in direction (6)
9 Run along sink (7)
15 Try ordinary writing over the sweetly appealing (9) 16 Fine can affect the supply of funds (7)
17 Heard two crooks were in line for the chair (5,3) 19 Strange particle dropping model for another model (7) 21 Operative ironed out resistance (2,5)
22 Lounge twists up and left (6)
23 Nail one overhead in the workshop (6)
25 Manage to turn back hour in time (5)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Green form of cauliflower (8)
5 Sea eagle (6)
10 African carnivore (5) 11 Trite saying (9) 12 Moderate in one’s views (6-2-3-4)
13 Pact between nations (6) 14 Tooth puller (7) 18 Frugality (7) 20 Discomfiture (6) 24 Sheep breed (6,9) 26 Blowing from the Antarctic (9)
27 Vision (5)
28 Gloomy (6)
29 Patellae (8)
DOWN
1 Gigantic powerful beast (8) 2 Behind schedule (7) 3 Mountebank (9)
4 Servile hanger-on (6)
6 Set of steps used to get over a fence (5)
7 Harshly loud (7) 8 Produces, bears (6)
9 Black feline (7) 15 Appalachian state of the US (9)
16 Entreat (7)
17 Waste, debris (8) 19 Roister, revel (7)
21 West Indian island nation (7)
22 Ill-treated (6)
23 Native of Benghazi (6) 25 Volatile liquid formerly used as an anaesthetic (5)