CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1. Yet it is not a water sport (4) 6. The sin of the contortionist (4) 8. Isle of Capri or Isle of

Man demonstrate deductive reasoning from Roman times (1,6)

9. Catch a sausage (4) 10. No squinting over dyeweed I discovered (4-4)

11. Gunner gets a creeper in the gorge (6)

13. Print 200 copies to elope with (3,3)

14. Straightens a signal maybe (6)

16. Have a drink of champagne and orange in a tree (6) 17. Dressed? – Or given a dud (8)

18. Matador loses arm and gets a cane version (4)

20. It’s a better place to go (7) 21 & 22ac. What you may earn and what to do with it if thrifty (4,4)

Down

2. Have a premonition of lonesomeness (4)

3. What a South African farmer may have problems with and become (8,5)

4. Dowers may make you nod off (6)

5. Having come first, the German created amazement (6)

6. The study of efficiency of clock mechanisms? (4,3,6)

7. Illegal money from leaf collection competitions? (4,4)

12. Alas, late and all over the place (3,2,3)

15. A church division caused by a dubious young lady loitering around church (6)

16. Ned goes unimpeded to make a child’s cake (6)

19. A questionable area about being next door (4)