CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Important instruction to one’s financial

attorney? (11) 9 Checking growth by pinching (7) 10 Tina set up with a new name (5) 11 Ring New York Times? It will be expensive (4) 12 Good looks? (8) 14 Unruly priest in a bar (6) 16 Noble-sounding but without issue (6) 18 Inaccurate team sink badly (8) 19 Second rank or front? (4) 22 South African by birth? (5) 23 Oil change needed after journey in Libya (7) 24 Old timers (11)

DOWN

2 Suggest I am to practise a trade

apparently (5) 3 An elevating Kipling poem of

unaffected simplicity (4) 4 Soldier captured by enemies - old

diehards (6) 5 A sitting target for disgruntled

shareholders? (8) 6 Not one of two or three in disorder (7) 7 Sanction of a kind men do resent (11) 8 Capricious desire to overtake

someone (7,4) 13 Twists up, moved in front, all spread

out (8) 15 The stone antiquarians treat so

cryptically (7) 17 It’s true about not having reduction in

charge (6) 20 River cut by river (5) 21 Strikes may result when this is put out (4)

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