CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Having a tough time when leaning on bar (2,7,2)

8. Rotate engine till nut turns. How stupid (13)

9. Got wages with dad’s passport (4) 10. Discover old relative was an escort (8)

12. How to travel between tall buildings or is it what planes use? (6) 13. Pushes the blame on to the pictures (6)

16. Found more sari in the dressers (8)

18. Ramp for children’s conveyance (4) 21. Cite my PC alibi as faultlessness (13)

22. Troublesome couple, we hear, in the cactus (7,4)

Down

1. Seize sculpture when the Celt has left (5)

2. CIA tidy up with sourness (7) 3. Cat’s play (4)

4. So Lynn had some stockings (6) 5. Maybe found in the loo on the railway (8)

6. Dress for company shout (5) 7. Youth centre has some goes at back flips (1-5)

11. Maria gets some chimps to form a band (8)

12. There was no beer in East Berlin for the Russian leader (6)

14. We hear, mother possibly could produce a sandwich spread (7)

15. Comment about the currency (6)

17. Clean up after some Eskimo puppies (3,2)

19. Does he (or she) get a month with alternative to run council (5)

20. It is a shame about the mine with an unknown quantity (4)