CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

4. Heroic river gourmet (7) 8. Brought up for attack around the south-east (6)

9. Possibly lasting criticism? (7) 10. Specialist no longer cheeky (6)

11. Dissertations about sheets? (6)

12. Broadcasting about the melody (2,3,3)

18. Humble countryman, about 50, is affable (8)

20. Look in the French station you’ll find plenty (6)

21. He mails an advertisement (6)

22. Suggest a little work in plain language (7)

23. Agree to surrender the account first (6)

24. Emotionally upset and ripped apart (2,5)

Down

1. Possibly fed more during liberty (7)

2. Argue about being placed in reorganised side (7) 3. Qualification showing an amount of latitude? (6) 5. Tropical feature of Lampeter? (4,4)

6. Vessel for a tailor? (6) 7. Athlete done by someone absconding? (6)

13. A paper’s misprint about English conciliator (8)

14. Possibly boarding ones for sea trip? (7)

15. He doesn’t finish the first course! (7)

16. Man with a colony of rabbits (6)

17. A pair left in a car (6)

19. Act One is revised immediately (2,4)