CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1. An official command from the perverse dictator (5) 4. Spotted the grinder in the timber processing yard (7) 9. Dry blankets strike gold in the hamper (7,6)

10. There is no room left on the emergency rooms with the dirt oil filter (7,5)

13. Turn away from a French green … (5)

15. … river (5)

19. A polite government worker? (5,7)

22. Inlaid muds Vi & I put together for originality (13) 23. Primitive leg anthropologist finds is a tad graceful (7) 24. Dodgy psychiatrist was a bit of a roamer (5)

Down

2. Midget is found on d’ jetty we heard (5)

3. Is Albert able to go to the waterway? (5)

5. Jump out in the morning from a shrub? (6)

6. Means I’m really someone else (7)

7. Yet chalk may help you gain entry (8)

8. Shakespearean gobbledegook (5)

11. Comes back to exploit some spacesuits (3)

12. I arm crew and get tried for battle felony (3,5) 14. Scoffing at the balustrade (7) 16. I get on a kind of charge (3) 17. Appoint like a notice (6) 18. George gets away with the mortar (5)

20. Playschool chops out a metal compound (5)

21. International trials (5)