DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Sprinkle cereal and split nominal payment (10,4) 9 Dexterity reported in cold shoulder (7)
10 Sell off gold refined in cot (7)
11 Departure from some perplexities (4)
12 Break the rules to swindle disabled veteran (10)
14 Predicted events in coarse style (8)
15 Drop right and turn aside (6)
18 Dodging duty in mess (6)
19 Liquid spilt in a panic (8)
22 Proper radio programme left from the beginning (10)
24 Small and frequently spongy (4)
26 Treating crabs as beetles (7)
27 Head off chaos with a party and fruit (7)
28 Keeping a tight rein on property in East European report (7,2,5)
DOWN
1 Hold sheriff’s men on ship (7)
2 Leader here to accept identification (9)
3 Encourages, for example, hollow gaps (4)
4 Catch oil thrown off from universal (8)
5 Aerial tops central market (6)
6 Stone a goat in a style of the ’50s (10)
7 Bill boxing one in a row (5)
8 Wrapped up when sleeping at camp? (6)
13 Pass to crew member at close quarters (4-2-4)
16 Monkey goes ape in intelligence work (9)
17 How typical, a marine structure hid the seafood (8)
18 Bit cocky to order his pup about (6)
20 Make some useful contacts in dotcom employment? (7)
21 Better than even chance to be singular child (4-2)
23 State that first person had turned over (5)
25 Traitor caught around the collar (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Welfare system (6,8)
9 Spanish drink of red wine and fruit (7)
10 Take for granted (7)
11 Dutch cheese (4)
12 Kindly, charitable (10)
14 Painstakingly careful (8)
15 Mould (6)
18 Hinder (6)
19 Detergent, soap (8)
22 Applied science (10)
24 Small sphere to be strung on a necklace (4)
26 Shoemaker (7)
27 Free from confinement (7)
28 At all hours (6-3-5)
DOWN
1 Questionable (7)
2 Rock melon (9)
3 Measure of land area (4)
4 Collect discarded material (8)
5 Secret writing code (6)
6 Oratorical, bombastic (10)
7 Armistice (5)
8 Confer, present (6)
13 Cusine of a high standard (6,4)
16 Reckless criminal (9)
17 Member of a ruling clique (8)
18 Left complete or untouched (6)
20 Uneducated and bigoted country person (7)
21 Ruddy, rubicund (6) 23 Pole tossed in the Highland Games (5) 25 Alliance of countries (4)