CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. There’s a star in the swimming pool shuffle (4)

3. Dessert is something for me to yell about reportedly (3-5) 9. Hang it! I will squander everything after coming back from the States (7)

10. War or Fletcher’s piece (5) 11. Treasurer Tau owns an eating house maybe (12)

14. A bunch of hair for Robert (3) 16. Contribution from Austin put the cat among the pigeons (5) 17. Every second letter offered a charge (3)

18. ‘e’s got a redesigned brick unit! ‘ell! This will be low maintenance (7-5)

21. Hitler’s third (5) 22. Liberate to get no louse (7) 23. A pointer for poison from nightshade (8)

24. Get a growth from Marcy street (4)

Down

1. Record in South Carolina about bier (8)

2. Ossia is a fertile spot (5) 4. Claude is a bounder, oddly (3) 5. One could have itchy battles with feminine defence (8,4) 6. Can’t hear ma rue very loudly in other words with this (3,4) 7. Cat addresses? (4)

8. Boat for kin or an affair? (12) 12. Indian puree could be worth something (5)

13. Testable safety device (4,4) 15. It is milder for degree student, at the end of term. That’s right! (7)

19. The survivor yesterday holds key material (5)

20. East African leaders from old city make fertiliser (4) 22. Deserve a container, we hear (3)

Yesterday

Across: 1. Recipes, 5. Laced, 8. Sanctimonious, 9. Rim, 10. Outstrips,

12. Intern, 13. Doughs, 15. Cognitive, 16. Pal, 18. Brass knuckles,

20. Sahib, 21. Resists.

Down: 1. Riser, 2. Cinematograph, 3. Pot-pourri, 4. Semite, 5. Len,

6. Cooking apples, 7. Desists, 11. Twopences, 12. Incubus, 14. Dinner,

17. Lists, 19. Sob.