DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Was a backward opening in its entirety (2,1,5)

6 Tackle hogshead with friend (4)

10 Managed return fights and contracts (7)

11 Reached dark slice of cheese (7)

12 Variety of rock that might be lead? (5,5)

13 Pursue bird’s tail from trees (4)

15 Breakfast might be miles worse without an upstart (6) 16 Share in raising a tenant’s payment behind policeman’s back (2-6) 18 Taking the lead from geriatric treatment standards (8)

20 One-sided bed is a bunk (6)

23 Quavered about state (4) 24 Athlete blown away by club (4,6)

27 Push forward untried characters (7)

28 Once more good man is in opposition (7)

29 Tense to be instructed we hear (4)

30 Some words of judgement (8)

DOWN

2 Identity of teamaker in an identical case (7)

3 Director of 13-across leanly chopped (5,5)

4 Used to throw out or be overthrown (6)

5 Ill-fitting clothes swaddling head of animal or vegetable (8)

6 Skives off within the limits of the city (4)

7 Morsel staff found in a pond (7)

8 Slowly move corporate head hunter (4)

9 Went ahead and lived on quarry (8)

14 Twist rusty nail up inside china (10)

15 Chime can upset car worker (8)

17 Starts holding butchered hens in stockings (4,4) 19 First change sides making date for a drink (4,3) 21 Wicked cast in a performance (7)

22 Filter out to break one’s neck (6)

25 It might be covered in religious education (4) 26 Conform to clubs perhaps (4)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Skin shed from the scalp (8)

6 Disguise for the face (4) 10 Egyptian monument (7) 11 Skull (7)

12 Balderdash (10)

13 Hindu or Sikh religious teacher (4)

15 Having a beautiful natural landscape (6)

16 Immature (8)

18 Word blindness (8) 20 Illustrate, portray (6) 23 Liquid food (4) 24 Pleasure-seeking (10) 27 Frontier settlement (7) 28 Diluting agent (7) 29 Thaw (4)

30 Never meeting or intersecting (8)

DOWN

2 Abbreviate, shorten (7) 3 Lift for carrying food between floors (10) 4 Disproportionately (6) 5 Servant who manages all his master’s affairs (8)

6 Ditch around a castle (4) 7 Goads, incentives (7) 8 Heroic poem (4)

9 Insolent, disrespectful (8) 14 Advantageous, useful (10) 15 Carnival attraction (8) 17 Dodge, avoid (8)

19 Sink a ship by holing it (7) 21 Forceful, vivid (7) 22 Baggage attendant (6) 25 Coagulated milk (4) 26 Sudden jar (4)