CRYPTIC CLUES

Quick Clues ACROSS

4. Stranded (7)

8. Secure (6)

9. Ostracise (7)

10. Lease (6)

11. Raise (6)

12. Heraldic (8)

18. Hag (8)

20. Tiny (6)

21. Tell (6)

22. Associate (7)

23. Rue (6)

24. Conceal (7)

DOWN

1. Authentic (7)

2. Thrift (7)

3. Terror (6)

5. Spherical (8)

6. Mystic (6)

7. Report (6)

13. Innate (8)

14. Postpone (7)

15. Enliven (7)

16. Illusion (6)

17. Mumble (6)

19. Present (6)

Yesterday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 1 Promiscuity; 9 Old; 10 Surrogate; 11 Plead; 13 Triceps; 14 Thirty; 16 Animal; 18 Leisure; 19 Tenon; 20 Tradition; 21 Bus; 22 Destination

DOWN: 2 Rid; 3 Mused; 4 Sprite; 5 Utopian; 6 Tradesman; 7 Hospitality; 8 Beastliness; 12 Eliminate; 15 Tourist; 17 Benign; 19 Tenet; 21 Boo.

ACROSS

4. Old money? (7)

8. One hears the chief classical songs (6)

9. Flowers I’ve lost somehow (7)

10. Provide cover at home, certainly (6)

11. Group of directors on the ship (6)

12. Difficult craft producing privation (8)

18. Sure it’s a pole (8)

20. Loose skin noticed when friend married and returned (6)

21. A father accepting help when fearful (6) 22. Unscrupulously manipulating the tackle (7)

23. Country producing oil, say (6)

24. The limit of the current recession? (3,4)

DOWN

1. Kills, I hear, with toboggans (7)

2. The French one has certain time off (7)

3. Edinburgh club suit (6)

5. Grave remarks? (8)

6. Bar car? (6)

7. Animals made to rest (6)

13. Chanced to upset Daphne about physical education (8)

14. First-rate contest for fine pilots (3,4) 15. Jabbers and annoys (7)

16. Sheep doctor going around Ireland (6) 17. Stairs before landing? (6)

19. Where you’ll find a teacher to tell (6)maps, maybe (6)

19. Lifting gear obtained from the fellow in charge (5)

Poetic effort was outstanding, we hear (3) 21.