The Star Late Edition

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

- CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Plain, frozen fish caught outside of Dover (6)

5 Idly draw benefit without good, in half the case (6) 10 Puritan pair given due process (5)

11 Fashionabl­e heavenly body gets a 10 in terms of government revenue (6,3) 12 Approximat­ely one division a boxing match (10)

13 Idol may go through the roof (4)

15 Terminal illness let in a sickly colour (6)

16 Literary characters casually bathe behind mountain (8) 19 Going for a paddle with ruler after backchat with academic head (8)

20 Belied cooking to be fit for the table (6)

23 Right paddle for the bay, perhaps (4)

25 Poems about a sick French palace (10)

27 Try crossing over a dune

(9)

28 Each piece of leg work brings a very good score (5) 29 Grating lecture ends after girl showed a change of heart (6)

30 Split seed indistingu­ishable from small seed (6)

DOWN

2 Turn out every second American raised friend in a funny way (9)

3 Fear bars may come as a shock to Jamaicans (10) 4 Stance of a Korean leader before bravado ends (6) 5 Separate and hide coup leaders when uncovered (8) 6 Resistance units ordered to start British ship (4)

7 Slow to swallow the last of that coffee (5)

8 Has a reporter turn over some dramatic works (6) 9 Send off in complex portfolio (6)

14 Having footwear with frayed ends is poor form (10) 17 Pop and baby played bugle before mass (9)

18 Over again for a second between encore performanc­es (4,4)

19 Core of navy harboured in ship’s base (6)

21 See IRA poses no more trouble (6)

22 Takes over and blows USSR up (6)

24 Dared rattle snake (5) 26 Welcome shower (4)

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