CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 7. Put an end to drink (6) 8. One of ten that was a popular 60s song (6)

9. Horse gate, we hear (4)

10. No dirt on non-residents? Rubbish! (8)

11 & 17ac. Operate as toy repairer? (7,7)

13. Tips back first egg out of malice (5)

15. Do, but maybe have misgivings (5)

17. See 11

20. Cyril & Ned run round a tube (8)

21. They could be evens surprisingly (4) 23. Conceptualistic in emanation of motion pictures in part (6) 24. A score of 4½ (6)

Down

1. Captors opt out but get injury reminder (4)

2. No point in condition to get us position (6)

3. You’re out of sight if you disappear into it (4,3)

4. The pain in the past of New York initially (5)

5. A heap of problems on the motorway (4,2)

6. Untrue abstainer gets a ring. A very high voice (8)

12. Bonny oil for the madhouse (5,3)

14. Dog managed to get bone and dried fruit (7)

16. A tough old bird (6) 18. Powdered earth (6)

19. In charge of commercial operations (5)

22. Fruit consumed by 500 (4)

Saturday

Across: 1. Purple, 4. Prow, 8. Length, 9. Swoops, 11. Relic, 12. Ripped, 15. Mademoiselles, 17. Dearth, 19. Drone, 21. Red hot, 23. Entomb, 24. Rely,

25. Smithy.

Down: 1. Pilgrims, 2. Rankled, 3. Late comer, 5. Row, 6. Whole, 7. Dust, 10. Freight, 13. Pseudonym, 14. Assembly, 16. Lookout, 18. Eider, 20. Crop, 22. Oil.