DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

CRYPTIC

1 Mean to be getting the picture (8)

6 Corrupt headquarters (4) 10 Infuriate when old car doesn’t start (5)

11 Condemn professional writer (9)

12 Aristocrats’ revolutionary act in Paris (10)

13 Mushy peas in church recess (4)

15 Cut timber to go into toboggan (7)

16 Disgrace when crowned head wore casual footwear (7)

17 Boil as choir leader interrupted playing of the basses (7)

20 Lost identification after mail’s gone astray (7) 22 Underdone and thin on the ground (4) 23 Dilapidated and ramshackle work on bend (6,4)

26 Mishaps I had in foreign pronunciations (9)

27 Shot in the arm by jerk when outside working (5) 28 Link can turn up after the weekend (4)

29 Makes press officer swallow some coffee (8)

DOWN

2 Made a target for meeting on the waves (7)

3 Set right an incorrect alignment (10)

4 Urchin told tales that were only hinted at (7) 5 Foundation for land around the house (7)

6 Resist American capital (4) 7 Slept after the start of school and was passed over (7)

8 Leading democrat and representative is wet (4) 9 Rose against beauty in scarlet (8)

14 Wasting one’s time at home (10)

15 Flight of extremely swift aviation firm (8)

18 A competition between two Poles and an old Arab (7)

19 Oddball rang set combination (7)

20 Hatches and buries the hatchet (5,2)

21 Baulked at no sum or sums of money (7)

24 Swipe in prison (4) 25 Prepare to put out crank diet (4)

QUICK

ACROSS

1 Migraine (8) 6 Reverberation (4) 10 Subdivisions of a leaf (5) 11 Tardy arrival (9)

12 Political assembly (10) 13 Rubber stopper (4) 15 Gifted child (7)

16 In the middle of (7) 17 Antiquated, outmoded (7) 20 Shiver of excitement (7) 22 Panache (4)

23 Syringe injected beneath the skin (10)

26 Final demand or proposal (9)

27 Sluggish arm of a river (5) 28 Rocky peak (4) 29 Maintains, asserts (8)

DOWN

2 Boycott, interdiction (7) 3 Unlike (10)

4 False accusation (7) 5 Baltic nation (7)

6 Engrave (4)

7 German port city (7)

8 Toss (4)

9 Scare (8)

14 Conspicuous, easily seen (10)

15 Tranquil, calm (8) 18 Prattle (7)

19 Hidden, obscure (7) 20 Underwater swimmer (7) 21 Breed of white spitz dog (7)

24 Most important point (4) 25 Excessively self-satisfied (4)