DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Team squealing when hysterical (4,9)
10 Organ played during drive on the Mexican border (3,6)
11 Some regular urban retreat from the country (5) 12 Design factory without backing (4)
13 Full of tension when hammering outside section (4-6)
15 An erotic model for all living things (8)
16 Disfigure chap by shaking leg (6)
19 Drunken slob in the city (6)
21 Don’t cook enough grams for outsider (8) 24 Devotion, say, is a central part of marriage (10) 25 Scope to be less stuffy in diction (4)
27 Left Jason’s ship somewhat slowly (5) 28 Made out a green tin by the colour (9)
29 Infection and its cause made lane a mess (6,7)
DOWN
2 Cut off aisle to building (7) 3 Wholeheartedly regret raising common currency (4) 4 Draft ticket working with military headquarters (8) 5 Sailed off with morals (6) 6 Stops traffic in Main Street (10)
7 Race up and confess to care as a profession (7) 8 Coalpit disaster curbed resistance to steaming (8) 9 Peter out with Jack? (4) 14 Derisive snort by stableboy from place of safety (10)
17 Impresses with nerve gas solution (8)
18 Settle into Saint-Saens concert (8)
20 Records upswing with compulsion to spend freely (7)
22 Rodents form democratic association if cat is away (7) 23 Wheels not turning in container (6)
24 Regularly gambolled when allowed (4)
26 Fish see reflection around the lake (4)
Yesterday’s solutions:
Across: 1 Scalene. 5 Trances. 9 Ring-barking. 10 Ebb. 11 Elsewhere.
12 Exist. 13 Stylist. 15 Drachma. 16 Molotov. 19 Brescia. 21 Cigar. 22 Shorthand. 25 Loo. 26 Emergencies. 27 Nemesis. 28 Tracery.
Down: 1 Serve. 2 Amnesty. 3 Elbow. 4 Earnest. 5 Tail-end. 6 Aggregate. 7 Cherish. 8 Substrata. 13 Semicolon. 14 Internees. 17 Legroom. 18 Vespers. 19 Brought. 20 Chalice. 23 Tonga. 24 Dusty.
QUICK ACROSS
1 Ability to use either hand equally well (13) 10 Consortium (9)
11 Wed (5)
12 Absent (4)
13 Primitive wingless insect (10)
15 Bangle (8)
16 Waterproof hip boots (6) 19 Minion (6)
21 Fanaticism (8) 24 Abashed, sheepish (10) 25 Mongolian desert (4) 27 Cathay (5)
28 Chemical used to kill insects (9)
29 Weather forecaster (13)
DOWN
2 North-western US state (7) 3 Coloured part of the eye (4)
4 Scrutineer, inspector (8) 5 Dozen (6)
6 Extraordinary (10)
7 Insect that feeds on wood (7)
8 Turkey’s largest city (8) 9 Legend (4)
14 Slow down (10) 17 Parachutist (8) 18 Volte-face (8) 20 Eucharistic cup (7) 22 Regions around the Equator (7)
23 Spruce (6)
24 Bag (4)
26 Monarch (4)
Yesterday’s solutions:
Across: 1 Mermaid. 5 Stopgap. 9 Suffragette. 10 Zoo. 11 Charlatan. 12 Solar. 13 Congeal. 15 Cholera. 16 Risible. 19 Cuticle. 21 Bravo. 22 Termagant. 25 Aid. 26 Denominator. 27 Demerit. 28 Culprit.
Down: 1 Music. 2 Refrain. 3 Aural. 4 Digital. 5 Satanic. 6 Overshoot. 7 Gazelle. 8 Procreate. 13 Cardboard. 14 Embroider. 17 Stardom. 18 Extinct. 19 Ceramic. 20 Chapter. 23 Annul. 24 Tarot.