CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 7. Ask to return what is in the cellar deteriorating (6) 8. From where do the crow/hen certifications come from (6) 9. Make way without Amy who was potently challenged (4) 10. You don’t want him to invite you for dinner! (8)

11. Tie bone up with insulation material (7)

13. The Civil Service has the centre for fish (5)

15. A cricket item that will baffle me (5)

16. Got hold of the badger with note (7) 18 & 22ac. It is a question of how many babies you would like at once (8,6)

19. The first class attorney was in the opera (4)

21. Isis – or actually was the brother (6)

22. See 18 Down 1. Sherries, oddly, can be (4) 2. Arresting Kemp, perhaps, for failure to use them (7,6) 3. Hoopla cat experiences. Has to pacify it (7)

4. From one direction to another the gun veered (5) 5. Indicates where ace Ian hobbles across (7,6)

6. Dig frantically for a game (8) 12. You can drive around this place in NSW (8)

14. Flying saucer fails and leaves with haste (7)

17. Tic caused by a step into S &M(5)

20. Reportedly bobbed down – to get under this pipe? (4)

Yesterday

Across: 6. Dressing-table, 8. Tweeters, 9. Inch, 10. Smother, 12. Bogus, 14. Slosh, 16. Flowers, 19. Edge, 20. Magazine, 22. Acupuncturist.

Down: 1. Brow, 2. Assent, 3. Pie-eyed, 4. Agist, 5. Casino, 7. Lacquer, 11. Melodic, 13. Blighty, 15. Sleepy, 17. Wizard, 18. Amend, 21. Nose.