Double trouble

Each clue leads to two answers which differ from each other by one letter. You must decide which is the correct one. For example, the two possible answers to 1A are RESIDE and BESIDE — the answer to 1D will reveal which one is correct.

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Record

ACROSS

1 Dwell Next to (6) 4 Fight against Marsupial (6) 7 Opera’s orchestral introduction Rescind (8) 9 Dried crust of blood Paving stone (4) 11 More weird Venomous snake (5) 12 Creepy-crawlies Taints (7) 13 Gardening tool Large-headed food fish (4) 15 Assemble Parent (6) 17 Compered Backpackers’ lodging (6) 20 Gusto Wax stamp (4) 22 Soil fertiliser Write music (7) 24 Criminal Large fruit (5) 26 Aspiration Thick cord (4) 27 Proximity Tidiness (8) 28 Four score Powerful (6) 29 Author Restaurant worker (6)

DOWN

1 Cuisine Reservation (7) 2 Hard outer casing On the —, put aside or abandoned (5) 3 Down in the dumps Found (8) 4 Ranked tennis player Remove unwanted plants (4) 5 Pit worker Skinflint (5) 6 — manners, eating etiquette Marten (5) 8 Coarse file Draw in the breath sharply (4) 10 US conscription Skill in handiwork (5) 14 Data processor Long-distance work traveller (8) 16 Muscle pain March, trudge along (5) 18 Clothed Kitchen sideboard (7) 19 Name of two of King Henry VIII’s wives Skin complaint (4) 20 Waste metal Hop it! (5) 21 Blood-sucking parasite Tree (5) 23 Open Prevent from happening (5) 25 The One and —, Chesney Hawkes hit Soaked in grease (4)