The Star Late Edition

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

- CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Acquire the knack to buy enough wallpaper? (3,3,4,2,2) 10 Rough as parking in circuit (7)

11 Annoyance at haring off after leader of the chase (7) 12 Object to be going after previous farewell (4)

13 Show how doctors ill-treat us (10)

15 Accidental­ly debit one when carrying out orders (8) 16 Invent way to settle difference­s (4-2)

19 Envied tossing some salad (6)

21 Dutch landmark decision about mind alteration (8) 24 New cantor led musicians into bootleggin­g (10)

25 Burn hydrogen in motor (4) 27 Chair, piano and settle (7) 28 Pays out about the pickle in one’s bedclothes? (7) 29 Conciliato­ry rebel in ten long battles (3-11)

DOWN

2 See unit transforme­d inside toilet (7)

3 Musical group had time to move from back to front of street fighting (4)

4 Urge works with vegetable (8)

5 Collect report from a working party (6)

6 Adapting an innovative Chinese symbol (5,5)

7 Ruled out breaking of bread (7)

8 Wound up present, for one (5)

9 Macabre morgue constructe­d to house the last of the Mohicans (8)

14 Cut the second eleven? (10) 17 Split North Star with the East (8)

18 Triumph over press, raising, for example, Canadian capital (8)

20 Waste long spell in prison (7)

22 Animal car unloaded from Manchurian transports (7) 23 Fall ill, catching mad cow disease, and go down quickly (6)

24 Top working fowl (5)

26 Just open for a drink in the pub (4)

Yesterday’s solutions: Across:

1 Assassinat­ion. 10 Article. 11 Pillion. 12 Continents. 13 Fire. 15 Rhodes. 17 Estimate. 19 Hysteria. 20 Defect. 23 Snag. 24 Show-jumper. 27 Engrave. 28 Termini. 29 At ones leisure.

Down: 2 Satan. 3 Archimedes. 4 Skewer. 5 Nepotism. 6 Toll. 7 Originate. 8 Lascar. 9 Annexe. 14 Lifeguards. 16 Onslaught. 18 High seas. 19 Hosier. 21 Turn in. 22 Swathe. 25 Prior. 26 Lawn.

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