DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Drink to the telegram and to the end of competition (4,2,3,4)

10 Gather and set on fire without starter (5)

11 Great help when unravelling cable (9)

12 Showing or shielding (9)

13 Two redheads embracing are more unusual (5)

14 Waves expert to come to the top (7)

16 Anti-personnel device checked by one worried candidate (7)

18 Spanish entertainer resorting to drama (7)

20 Simple user ate bananas (7)

22 Blast being enveloped in mist or miasma (5)

24 Original sideshow amusement may make a killing (9)

26 Rude slit in gun emplacement (9)

27 More rectangular and less upright (5)

28 Uncertain how one loose end put an end to things (13)

DOWN

2 Hold out coil for curling iron (5)

3 Nanny made sure a mind is wasted (9)

4 Exterior is due to change (7)

5 For instance, iodine layer caking a piece of timber (7)

6 Salary runs to a bet on the horses (5)

7 Put in new order for back chain (9)

8 Fails to reach unmarried women (6)

9 Amount of electricity bill (6)

15 Reconstituted as portion of rodent killer (3,6)

17 Mortals keep horrible ogress in the shade (4,5)

18 Service provided a series of high points (6)

19 Breathing space, especially during liturgy (7)

20 Mix a little before midnight and between mornings (7)

21 Printed slips for deserter in time (6)

23 Feel emotional about turning into scrap (5)

25 Nurse may foot the bill (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Dietary source of energy (13)

10 Ward off (5)

11 Abstruse (9)

12 Swimming stroke (9)

13 Roman language (5) 14 Shaped like a coil (7)

16 Defeat decisively (7)

18 Greek plain where ancient games were held (7)

20 Beginning to develop (7)

22 Rectal irrigation (5)

24 Parallelogram with four right angles (9)

26 Seductive, fetching (9)

27 The entire scale or range (5)

28 Imprisonment (13)

DOWN

2 Dexterous (5)

3 Yellow flower (9)

4 Unkind, distressing (7)

5 Decipher (7)

6 Cancel, make void (5)

7 State of being (9)

8 Old quarter of a North African city (6)

9 Meeting of spiritualists (6)

15 One who is not a member of the clergy (9)

17 Violent attack (9)

18 Take too far (6)

19 Requiring oxygen for respiration (7)

20 Powered by atomic energy (7)

21 A score (6)

23 Largest artery in the body (5)

25 Stew thickened with okra (5)