DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Scepticism about bookings (12)
9 A measure of speed inside storage jar (7)
10 Amount of energy one put into moving coaler (7)
11 Pillion has fancied digital enhancement (4,6)
12 On the other hand, flipping a member of the band (4) 14 Ground down under the depth of poverty (6)
15 Temple leader organised month in a wing of the church (8)
17 Launched tennis game and put food on the table (6,2) 19 Lifter’s wrenching strain (6) 22 Whale on show in Windsor Castle (4)
23 Sign of government ownership has way to go in handcart (5,5)
26 Late in the day to be doing the ironing? (7)
27 Beheading rabble-rousing number (7)
28 Rest centre or rebuilt meeting place (6,6)
DOWN
1 Model lacier parts hugging the front of panties (7)
2 Field athlete from crack club (4,6)
3 In fact, eastern leader broke up demonstration (6)
4 Bring out canes to have a crack at blood (8)
5 Key part of chamois leather (4)
6 Hurried to raise true grounds for upbringing (7) 7 Join pole with pole in building (4)
8 Wine server kept container in damp (8)
13 Casual opener in Test team turned into symptom of malaise (10)
14 Unearth plate at an end (8) 16 Unconscious prerogative to go without qualifications (8) 18 Most opulent rites performed when circling the church (7)
20 Eager person in bank covered up blunder (7) 21 Force party to get along (4-2)
24 Triumph over hard drinker (4)
25 Report connected to the rise in sea level (4)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Love of mankind, humanitarianism (12) 9 Regulate, direct (7) 10 Former Soviet republic bordering Romania (7) 11 Board game (10)
12 Skating arena (4) 14 Detective (6)
15 Intense, unfounded fear or suspicion (8)
17 Extinct mammoth (8) 19 Sew (6)
22 Active, nimble (4) 23 Inhibitory writ (10) 26 Tombstone inscription (7) 27 Subjugate, tyrannise (7) 28 Person expected to succeed to leadership (4,8)
DOWN
1 Verve, swagger (7)
2 Water supplied for agriculture (10) 3 Self-assurance, coolness (6)
4 Relating to time (8) 5 Brook (4)
6 Stipulation, rider (7) 7 Crust formed on a wound (4)
8 Sudden adverse reaction (8)
13 Form of a verb used adjectivally (10)
14 Academic term (8) 16 Small settlement (8) 18 Slavish (7) 20 Three-pronged spear (7) 21 Luminous phenomenon of the polar atmosphere (6) 24 Inquisitive (4)
25 Couple (4)