CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1. Lightly touches the flatfish (4) 3. Throw out the presser as made from basic material (4,4)

9. What cafe inn has to do with money (7)

10. The girl whose flies a kite (5) 11. Sweet smell dabbed on but an ounce aged Leo, unfortunately (3,2,7)

14. Drag by the foot, we hear? (3) 16. No trio can figure out the musical piece (5)

17. Italian district goes in three directions (3)

18. Peg mentions alternatively when I can get in to shop … (7,5)

21. ... to get head cake (5)

22. Bird gets a short charge to take off (7)

23. Announce a team and shelve (3,5)

24. Drop of sweat could be a commercial (4)

Down

1. Bounces off so fled sect, perhaps (8)

2. Race that is turbaned but not red (5)

4. Outlawed with wonderment (3) 5. Use a stop watch - slowly? (4,4,4)

6. TV’s concern with sailors (7) 7. Answering machine, Edward, is a bit of an essential (4)

8. What to turn to the contents pages with? (5,7)

12. Vital body instrument (5) 13. Hardened with salt? (8) 15. Erase surfer from the board (4,3)

19. The source of a lower sound coming from the southeast (5) 20. Sue’s customs (4)

22. A boy in Bangladeshi (3)

Yesterday

Across: 1. Main, 3. Claptrap, 9. Dream up, 10. Onset, 11. In the long run, 14. Hip, 16. Scale, 17. Due, 18. Smorgasbords, 21. Ad lib, 22. Lecture, 23. Gas meter, 24. Shod.

Down: 1. Midnight, 2. Inert, 4. Lop, 5. Ploughed back, 6. Resound, 7. Pith, 8. Immeasurable, 12. Osaka, 13. Bedstead, 15. Pimples, 19. Rough, 20. Fang,

22. Lie.