CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 No women around - it’s heavenly! (3,4) 5 His victims lose heart (5)

8 Blends in a pie’s ingredients - it’s vital (13) 9 Do a rough job of cleaning some of the tennis courts (5)

10 Time of day for ironing things out (7) 11 It makes a place look like a pigsty (6)

12 It is weighed by a craftsman (6)

15 Put me back in the box and dispose of the body (7)

17 Girl upsets Alice (5)

19 One who has retired down under has a comfortable berth (13)

20 Dissolute persons employed in the garden (5)

21 Continue to cause a commotion (5,2)

DOWN

1 They are driven to join things (5)

2 Take him for wed perhaps? Right off target! (4,2,3,4)

3 Make watchful remarks? (7) 4 Relatives may make a scene about one (6) 5 A sect reserved for a social class (5) 6 When most people stop work (6,7) 7 It profoundly improves a channel of communication (7)

11 A striking example of an evil personality (7) 13 Such energy can be devastating (7) 14 Decimal used in some tricky calculations (6) 16 Fly from a ship (5)

18 Poet of golden study (5)