DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Blue dog used to lying around as a way of keeping out the cold (6,7)
10 Bags carrying silencer in toboggan (7)
11 Before the audience made agent so enraged (2,5)
12 Public health in a rundown entrance to railway building (10) 13 Buck for the profiteer? (4) 15 Size up ship beyond the turbulent seas (6)
17 Scoffing when royalty is in the joint (8)
19 Port for the drunken Arab lord (8)
20 Bowled straight and full of beans (6)
23 After break in the cricket, score a half century, or a duck! (4)
24 Concerned with the body of rough animal (10)
27 Natural right to feature in jumble sales (7)
28 Performer’s small part is temporary (7)
29 Needle worker unfortunately cut up curtains (13)
DOWN
2 The heart, for instance, of a music maker (5)
3 Buy teapots, strangely enough, from a tourist attraction (6,4)
4 Matters to have smooth stone overturned (6)
5 Disregard being switched around to check out (4,4)
6 Half size split ends of skin (4) 7 Nigh and night differentiated in a close call (4,5)
8 Lamps moving across a sort of screen (6)
9 Some distance to confederate (6)
14 Accurate measure of metro crime waves (10)
16 Barbed object turned up in mutilated carcass (9) 18 Thousands running in the third generation (8) 19 Murderous to allow skinning of whale (6)
21 Cultivator of two lines in a row (6)
22 Sound of the second feature (6)
25 Limits of thousands to underwrite company’s legal expenses (5)
26 Ooze with little pain, to start with (4)
Wednesday’s solutions:
Across: 1 Osmosis. 5 Managed. 9 Earliness. 10 Spasm. 11 Liberalisation. 13 Gainsaid. 15 Agrees. 17 Clammy. 19 Disciple. 22 No hard feelings. 25 Remit. 26 Exonerate. 27 Cadence. 28 Bathtub.
Down: 1 Open. 2 Martini. 3 Suite. 4 Scenario. 5 Mishit. 6 Nostalgic. 7 Granite. 8 Diminished. 12 Egocentric. 14 Samaritan. 16 Firebomb. 18 Ashamed. 20 Pageant. 21 Effete. 23 Inept. 24 Herb.
QUICK ACROSS
1 Body of water between Africa and the Americas (8,5)
10 Retirement allowance (7) 11 Instrument for measuring electrical current (7)
12 Wipe out (10)
13 Part of the skeleton (4) 15 Hurry up (6)
17 Value used as a standard of comparison (8)
19 Coal mine (8) 20 Whalebone (6) 23 Pretence (4)
24 Unwilling to accept difference (10)
27 Avoidance (7)
28 Irish boat made of hides (7)
29 Sea between Europe and Africa (13)
DOWN
2 Mortise’s partner in a joint (5)
3 Branch of mathematics to do with calculations (10) 4 Prickly feeling (6) 5 Pretentious nonsense (8) 6 Stay in tents (4)
7 Give official sanction to (9) 8 Sprinkle, spatter (6) 9 Slight wind (6)
14 Ten-sided figure (10) 16 Muslim state (9) 18 Munitions (8)
19 Tropical nut (6)
21 Chat (6)
22 Agree (6)
25 Capital of Ghana (5) 26 Symbol of New Zealand (4)
Wednesday’s solutions:
Across: 1 Transom. 5 Shiatsu. 9 Elecution. 10 Tired. 11 Pit bull terrier. 13 Overdone. 15 Quarto. 17 Excuse. 19 Protocol. 22 Fraternisation. 25 Crass. 26 Abolition. 27 Dietary. 28 Fallout.
Down: 1 Tier. 2 Atomise. 3 Squab. 4 Mainland. 5 Sanity. 6 Interrupt. 7 Tarsier. 8 Underworld. 12 Poker-faced. 14 Dyspepsia. 16 Brush-off. 18 Charade. 20 Chorizo. 21 Unwary. 23 Trialo. 24 Unit.