DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Trim edges of bubble pack (6)

4 Surgeon failing to clamp centre piece of the bighearted (8)

10 Cabinet hit the books for a particular illustration (4,5) 11 A little backward to swallow one bone (5) 12 Tories revolt after late leader lingers (7)

13 Boast of utter confusion surrounding politician (7) 15 Blow the whistle on pot (5)

16 None rub me the wrong way as the top dog (6,3) 18 Good-for-nothing to be without work for the day (9) 20 Points to troubling times (5)

22 Lizard can return in heathland (7)

24 Secures release in salvage operations (7) 25 String in wet tangles (5) 27 Unattached structure of solo toe (9)

28 Men initially love girls to be sweet (8)

29 One climbs and blooms (6)

DOWN

1 Orders to fill sack with tangled lock (7)

2 Stationed in rundown terminus (11)

3 Cold as chops and nuts (7) 5 Type letters to take in capital of gulf country (5) 6 Gush over tunes he composed (7)

7 Doorbell ringing around the globe (3)

8 Jump as celebrity let fly (7) 9 Pest is in the shade (8) 14 Legal practitioners writing off courts (11) 17 Increase the space available for travelling by dogsled? (8)

18 Sign of my return in stomp dancing (7)

19 Ties the rest in knots (7) 20 Parochial smear in a slur (7)

21 Relatives of one in disturbing case of stress (7) 23 Go through and knock the head off pudding (5) 26 First two apprentices laid up (3)