DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Prickly dealings with povertystricken members of the family (4,9)

10 Proves breaking limit is to throw money around (9) 11 Brushed back of seats and top of table (5)

12 Make a decision after a charge (5)

13 Romance of train and boat (9)

15 Noted his transformation to bon vivant (8)

16 Pound of tobacco (4)

19 Pale first-class pitch (4) 20 Inconsiderate for leader of the thespians to make fewer stage appearances (8)

24 Even the score and subsequently reverse a tiebreaker (9)

25 Links warning about bone’s strong point (5)

26 Exchange rate covered unknown surplus (5)

28 Fuel shipping with decomposing rot in lake (3,6) 29 Seriously consider to possess a considerable intellect (4,1,4,4)

DOWN

2 Hands up note solving a simple case (4,3,4)

3 Local team went through opening (8)

4 Customs surrounding the queen’s discharge of duties (8) 5 Hard-core flinty spirit (6) 6 Not out of place at home to take an examination with university (2,4)

7 Endless longing to be born as a woman (3)

8 Chemical recycled at shop (6)

9 Sit up gingerly with frigid behind and with a dead head (6)

14 Trained as a pet chickenkeeping book user after work (5-6)

17 Battle alert modified during chase (8)

18 Fend off with fist, struggling with holding (5-3)

19 Given a certain kind of avarice (6)

21 First of the scaffolders picks up tool (6)

22 Content with power contract (6)

23 Confessed to holding up alternative kind of dress (6) 27 Meat-eater swallowed light refreshment (3)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Market for shares (5,8) 10 Not temporary (9) 11 Leave off (5)

12 Sign of the zodiac (5) 13 Irish prime minister (9) 15 Children’s game of vaulting over each other (8) 16 Make vague or hazy (4) 19 Slip sideways (4) 20 Extremely hungry (8) 24 Non-vowel sound (9) 25 Large sea (5) 26 Uncertain or intermediate position (5) 28 Underhand, untrustworthy (9)

29 Breed of cat with black, cream and brown markings (13)

DOWN

2 Completion, ending (11) 3 Categorise (8)

4 Particle orbiting a nucleus (8)

5 Natural fibre (6)

6 Means of entrance (6) 7 Former Portuguese colony in India (3)

8 Spread out, straggle (6) 9 Gentle breeze (6) 14 Omnipotent (3-8)

17 Work of art that mixes style (8)

18 Bulldoze, destroy (8) 19 Feed at the breast (6) 21 Unmarried (6)

22 Band of warriors (6) 23 Indian independence leader (6)

27 Sound of a cow (3)