CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1. Student gets an honour for earring holder (4)

3. Spoils ad so up for dumping (8)

8. Writing matching letters? (13) 10. Filled ten guns perhaps, having little regard for others (4-9) 11ac & 17dn. The time of metamorphosis of the random drama society? (2,4,5) 12. Some lexicography phenomena? Dash! (6)

15. Cab restraints for the absent minded? (13) 18. Concealed pay I found in a reference book (13) 19. Pioneers who pay their debts (8) 20. An island passage by the sound of it (4) Down 1. Canal sections could be hairraising! (5)

2. Breaks in but grumbles about losing a grand (7)

4. Some of the interim pedestrian crossing will get in the way (6)

5. Box on the soccer field? (7,4) 6. Split leather and slack off! (5) 7. Make less heavy and not as dark (7)

9. Claim eating is very mysterious (11)

11. They are what are required here (7)

13. Parties for 1dn? (7) 14. Pirate calls at the party near old city with vigour (6) 16. A Caledonian racecourse? (5)

17. See 11 Across