CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 6. Have a knowledge of lighting reportedly (4,5,4) 8. Divides coin sets (8) 9. Physician gets two ducks for entranceway (4)

10. Throw me downs? (3,4) 12. Sneak noiselessly, observing offending persons at first (5) 14. The cake topping is freezing up (5)

16. Exact recipes? (7) 19. Come down to earth (4) 20. The remaining scraps could be easy ones (8)

22. Where to find learner drivers practising stops? Ha! (9,4) Down 1. The height of a grasshopper? (4)

2. Wrap up in wheats... (6) 3. ...or rush sod around the dead (7)

4. Street tree to hide the loot in (5)

5. Country that is a quarter paradise (6)

7. Sour Mao is lusty (7) 11. Plaudit for department & the French international leader at the beginning of March (7) 13. Tracking down drawing (7) 15. Belief in absolutely nothing? (6)

17. Roman Catholic comes back. Is an after thought to get potato chips (6)

18. No rat around upstream, just froth (5)

21. Jewel found around the middle of April for Bertie (4)

Yesterday

Across: 3. Absconds, 9. Ordered, 10. Ester, 11. Freudian slip,

13. Shimmy, 15. Googly, 17. Peanut butter, 20. Learn,

21 & 1ac. Herring bone, 22. Redheads, 23. Fern.

Down: 1. Blowfish, 2. Nudge, 4. Bedlam, 5. Chefs d’oeuvre, 6. Nothing,

7. Sort, 8. Predominance, 12. Hydrogen, 14. Ireland, 16. Itched,

18. Tribe, 19. Slur.