CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1. No more obstacles - so where to go with the 4WD and what has to be done to clean it (4,3,5)

8 & 23ac. Car & plane? safety device (3,3)

9. Phew! - I heard that! (5,4) 10. UK shipbuilding city?... (4) 11. … fill a lot of small craft (8) 13. A man of great standing and high profile (6)

14. Middle Eastern and the French male made it fit for planting (6)

17. It’s cancelled then reinstated occasionally (3,3,2)

19. Mary’s stalker was an essayist? (4) 22. This will need no oral examination (4,5)

23. See 8

24. Yet they don’t puff on the links (12) Down 1. Erica Moorland is one … (5) 2. … Mary nil unfortunately (7) 3. Scramble back in for pieces of a ring (4)

4. It’s a Yankee scribbling? (6) 5. Theme for a Rover & ute maybe (8)

6. Ned leaves Madeline to get a message (1-4)

7. Iron for example or just getting on (3,3)

12. Force on to a junk with a catapult (8)

13. A bit stunned - like beer? (6)

15. A bush finch (7)

16. Tennis chat-up lines? (6)

18. Beethoven’s “G” in C for example (5)

20. Tom left his strange looking gumboots? Not really (5)

21. A short show (4)