DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Change of life for poor ape on entering brood (9)
6 Wide beachfront path (5) 9 Permanent mark for every run (7)
10 Cleans up mess without direction on release (7) 11 Typical gift left in tree via monkeys (14)
13 Hold instrument the wrong way round in huff of pouting (8)
15 Limits of science in French cars (6)
17 Drop a question which it isn’t entirely dull (6) 19 Directed at Saigon city (8) 22 Seems obvious that one gets to one’s feet to work out (6,2,6)
25 Belt man unfortunate enough to be dancing (7) 26 Eighth of an ounce and a silver coin (7)
27 Blows in the wind indicators (5)
28 Overload and singe during increase of power (9)
DOWN
1 Hums composition of cloying sentimentality (4) 2 Eastern cooking is most convenient (7)
3 Assistant through assignment (5)
4 Union leader drawing out revolution (8)
5 Queen’s recreation includes one of the horsy kind (6)
6 European capital with a Schubert fixation (9) 7 Regularly force air in a musical instrument (7)
8 The blues may disperse on treatment (10) 12 Purgative medicine stops meals being wasted (5,5) 14 Cleaner Hollywood strip (9)
16 Province abroad torn between left and right (8) 18 Not bloody enough to divert a cinema (7)
20 One more ring in floral structure (7)
21 Standing out with the tip of the nose in sculptures (6) 23 First of all, stab and strike with shame (5)
24 Told original murderer of old school punishment (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Cruel, unkind (9)
6 Room in the roof (5) 9 Relating to the stomach (7) 10 Lean and bony (7) 11 Decipherment, explanation (14)
13 Work out (8)
15 Wilful destroyer of property (6)
17 Kind of dark tea (6) 19 Lasting all one’s years (8) 22 Bed warmer (3-5,6) 25 Obstacle, hindrance (7) 26 Curt (7)
27 Punctuation mark (5) 28 Vitamin-rich kernels of grain (5,4)
DOWN
1 Enormous (4) 2 Non-attendance (7)
3 Rich creamy cake (5) 4 Inclination to retreat from reality (8)
5 Mariners (6)
6 Make worse (9)
7 Added up (7)
8 Order of events (10) 12 Hating foreigners (10) 14 Infection, pestilence (9) 16 The former Rhodesia (8) 18 Word for word (7) 20 Angled, skew (7) 21 Jewish tongue (6) 23 Tease, bait (5)
24 Smile broadly (4)