CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1. See 22 3. See 5 5 & 3ac. Time oars properly to cross it (5,3) 8. Was his highest possible poker score a pair? – or did he have a full house? (4) 9. Here they are not into occupational high dives. Actually they are (8) 11. Specified platitudes, perhaps (10)

13 & 23ac. Estuary turns up urns & ax Ron, (4dn) and the 1dn of it (13,3)

15. They have their ups and downs ... (10)

19. ... with one of these ( mile high take off?) and 13dn (8)

20. He came from Camelot toolsmith shop (4)

21. Clean up in the lottery (5)

22 & 1ac. The shape of the “Little Dipper”? Something’s brewing! (3,3)

23. See 13

Down

1. Leaves just the meat or found by themselves by the 4dn (5)

2. Zebra in Algiers strangely found in frozen rivers (8)

4. He does all the spade work to find 1 dn (13)

5. I heard say what the Red Indian drowned in after breaking world record in tea drinking. He lives in it! (5)

6. Double agent who goes underground (4)

7. Nitrous oxide without index can be hilarious! (7)

10. Yet you don’t get hot water from it in Scotland (4)

12. The advertiser of the professional engine, I hear (8)

13. Rams cat, perhaps, and found at 13 & 19 (7)

14. Tunes that get the Cockney brush off (4)

16. Poets hinder backtrack of former statement in law ... (5)

17. ... so prosecute (so to speak) one found in 5 (5)

18. Return from an ear bashing down a hillside in Scotland (4)

Yesterday

Across: 1. Quays, 4. Illegal, 8. In-off, 9. Algeria, 10ac & 15dn. Kid gloves,

11. Triumviri, 12. Edda, 13. Spot, 18. Perplexed, 20. Roe, 21. Removal, 22. Arena, 23. Dresses, 24. Drunk.

Down: 1. Quick tempered, 2. Avoided, 3. Safety, 4. Italic, 5. Legume, 6. Gorki, 7. Leap in the dark, 14. Parvenu, 16. Oxalis, 17. ID card, 19. Ramie.