DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS 1 Transported for a stint in chains (10)

6 Sack the bunch for taking ring (4)

10 Tick isn’t bothered by colonial insect (7)

11 Simple tremor on ice field (7)

12 Face succession of family (4)

13 Much better but resembling computing to a greater extent (4,4,2) 15 Swine mistreating one’s birds (7)

16 Assessor against breaking a rule (6)

20 Bully took in everyone but the guileless (6) 21 Magical bird to hone figure in photos (7)

24 Sketch one dud cartridge but get no results (4,1,5) 26 Plant back on bottom of ship (4)

28 Nearest parts of the Orient (7)

29 Trouble returned with single child from affair (7) 30 Minute can come before early closing (4)

31 Loners play game for oneself (10) DOWN 1 Gag is felt to be revolting (6)

2 Latin see’s new key (9) 3 Cutting edge of heavy metal (4)

4 Departing or forthcoming (8)

5 Less sensitive digit (6) 7 Light weight turned out on cue (5)

8 Understood vessel was reserved (8)

9 Bothered to have shaken it at drier (9)

14 Struck a chord not erased in battle (9)

17 General abuse of anvil user (9)

18 Dictates changes to critical appraisal (4,4) 19 Pushing less inside tiles (8)

22 Can leg shot be a deflection off the legs? (6) 23 A little undernourished to throw up outside hotel (6) 25 Minister lost head over crime (5)

27 Grow light in the east and set around the west (4)

QUICK

ACROSS 1 Violate the law (10) 6 Elegant and stylish (4) 10 Support for a shelf (7) 11 Varying, dissimilar (7) 12 Departure (4)

13 Chemical processes in the body (10)

15 Elongate (7)

16 Motor home (6) 20 Confront, buttonhole (6) 21 Double-reed instrument (7)

24 Inkling, suggestion (10) 26 Male pig (4)

28 Plentiful, profuse (7) 29 Market dominance by two companies (7)

30 Pass the tongue over (4) 31 Pre-eminence (10) DOWN 1 Pill (6)

2 Tending to revert to a more primitive type (9) 3 Japanese rice wine (4) 4 Make reductions in personnel (8)

5 High-pitched screech (6) 7 Beautiful young woman of paradise (5)

8 Fried squid (8)

9 Change of life (9) 14 Orange fruit (9)

17 Minute unicellular organism (9)

18 Demented (8)

19 Fondle, pet (8)

22 State of inactivity (6) 23 Breakwater, mole (6) 25 Subject, theme (5) 27 Lacking legal force (4)