Cryptic Crossword

Both sets of clues fit both grids

ACROSS1 Attemptedsay (7) to replant seed,

5 Plaything? Do fifty-fifty! (4)

10 Racket, one entertained by

runner? (5)

11 Channel port with

brownish-grey church (7)

12 Graduates hold cap for Hindu

sage (7)

14 Simmer inflamed swelling (4)

16 One exposed in dust that’s

shaken up (6)

18 Keep following live act (6)

20 Initially a bright graduate

formed a group (4)

21 Agreement to have prisoner

transported (7)

24 Once more bring together

disorderly retinue (7)

28 25 27 Small Aheadthe Girl Southcuts tabletof and islandof Franceis runs lighter halfway(7) (4) (5) through

DOWN

2 Runner beans kill some (3)

3 A refined man’s

representative (5)

4 Attract close listener (6)

6 Be the first to give a speech

about one alcoholic drink (9)

7 Lost US president? As if! (4)

8 Via mundane Monet flower (7)

9 Powerless, locked in sauna,

bleeding (6)

13 Leather sure to be inflexible (9)

15 Material communication with

foreign island (7)

17 Doctors assist with inertia (6)

19 Ailment of 50% of Bohemians

cuddled by eastern parent (6)

22 Alan’s smashed up about the

nose (5)

23 Pack non-European lotion (4)

26 Single politician appears as

devil (3)