The Star E-dition

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Campaign for vacated building to house job centre (8)

5 Dislike wasting hot ale (6) 10 Slow and irregular going on the inside (5)

11 Serious actor treading a new set (9)

12 Piteous and rather odd conclusion (5-7) 15 Flavoured syrup ends chilled (6)

16 Record pile excited follower (8)

18 Cleric mitre wrongly accepted wrongdoing in return (8)

20 Gladly extracting every other mine’s output in great quantities (6)

23 Have no aversion to the highest degree (4,8) 26 Copy skirting around the top, rotating everything without backing (1,8) 27 Issue new coins (5) 28 Disturbed silent bays (6) 29 Shows use of net in newspapers (8)

DOWN

1 Nevertheless there’s uniformity everywhere (3,3,4)

2 Departures placing aviators in trouble (10) 3 Laugh at empty till during job (7)

4 Sway of summer? (6)

6 In the depths of cocaine abuse (7)

7 Catch on to small branch (4)

8 Ages of wrinkled ones (4) 9 Too mushy, m’lud, in a fashion (7)

13 Other side of the work place (10)

14 Cleaners put off men’s room (10)

17 Shows several alternatives (7)

19 Steal favourite offcut (7) 21 Painters first enter university faculty (7) 22 Crooked and dark? (6) 24 One supporting toll for transport (4)

25 Finish telling story (4)

ACROSS

1 Disposed; leant (8) 5 Meagre (6)

10 Ridges of sand (5) 11 Extreme poverty (9) 12 Competition title (12) 15 Stable (6) 16 Feeble-minded person

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18 Holiday (8)

20 Spittle mixed with mucus (6)

23 Music hall performer (12) 26 First course (9) 27 Crumple, compact (5) 28 Framework for railway signals (6)

29 Superficial (4-4)

DOWN

1 Dithery (10)

2 Recover from illness (10) 3 Lacking taste or spirit (7) 4 Make use of (6) 6 Drinking cup (7)

7 Fasten securely to the spot (4)

8 Tug (4)

9 Supple (7)

13 Dole out (10)

14 Skill in sailing (10) 17 Female deity (7)

19 Farm vehicle (7) 21 Large-billed seabird (7) 22 Czech composer (6) 24 Sharp taste (4) 25 Gyrate (4)

THE XFILES

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