Crossword 3

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Strangely talented redhead in old age (6,3)

8. Somewhere to stay again not included (3)

9. Instrument for checking the amount of haunting? (6,5)

11. Goes over wrong markings (7) 12. Discover Labour leader has to work for money (5)

13. Stayed constant (6)

15. Medium sitting (6)

17. A role on its own (5)

18. Another impression of no change (7)

20. Footballer gets the contents correct (6,5)

22. Excessively in addition (3) 23. Extremely agitated, some beginning to have hallucinations (3,6)

Down 2. Serpent used in Cleopatra’s plot (3)

3. They were taken by the left (5) 4. Join up in silent revolution (6) 5. Reveal 504 glue makers (7) 6. Does it reduce friction in the art world? (3,8)

7. Descriptive of entertainers having got their acts together? (2,7)

10. Working during surgery? (2,9)

11. Caveats to exercise electoral rights (4,1,4)

14. Hates semi-nude examinations (7)

16. What the captain’s playing at? (6)

19. Some improper thoughts about an Australian city (5)

21. Not quite very big embrace (3)