DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 More fitting to follow church division of work (7) 5 Sleep as stranger passes away (7)

9 Put out offspring (5) 10 Disputed rein’s pros and cons (9)

11 Revolutionary secret service committee is setting for intellectual contest (10) 12 Seized by eagle-eyed delight (4)

14 Desperately braved part of speech (6)

16 Caretaker to bury half the slight (7)

19 Mark of wound admitted some redness (7) 20 Dissolve condensation (6)

23 Law student seen in French street (4)

24 Call boxes and wagon to fluctuate in size (3,3,4) 27 Poorest in intelligence, if nothing else (9)

28 Appal Toscanini to go without singers (5) 29 Denigrate each poor writer (7)

30 Where to stay on holidays or in work breaks (7)

DOWN

1 Talk about token warbler? (8)

2 Report on key part of the church (5)

3 Financial officers certain to be held under false arrest (10)

4 Sort of parrot or bird of prey (6)

5 Topless half joined Hugh as refugee (8)

6 Total oenophile embraced medicinal plant (4)

7 Barrage from sect leader on eternal punishment (9) 8 Resist upsetting relative (6)

13 Hand bribes out in prison (6,4)

15 Leave wrapping under the weather to blow hot and cold (9)

17 Contradiction, for example, found in the state (8)

18 Hastiest solution for disbelievers (8)

21 Police stripped and held up father to frisk (6)

22 Nurse gathered energy for her work (6)

25 Moving stair in motion (5) 26 Post off check (4)