CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. It's no good without Bob (8)

5. A group of fliers returning from a great distance (4)

9. Halt the return of containers (4) 10. Groups of soldiers also in schemes (8)

11. A sign that corn is lacking from the island (5) 12. Endorse the first letter (7)

13. There's no telling where it might lead to (6,7) 18. Unskilled, having wrongly constructed the pier next (8)

19. Has to be sown out (4) 20. One can't remember suffering from this (7) 21. Back at sea? (5)

22. Not the sole command for dogs! (4)

23. Daily set out in a stable manner (8)

Down

2. To argue about a cruel

act (7)

3. Ruler, English politician

and the Queen get

nothing right (7)

4. Arrogant, finding more

pints flat, perhaps (4-9)

6. State it's an excessively

ornate one (7)

7. Determination to sort

out (7)

8. Takes off football

kits (6)

13. Vegetable Pinchas

cooked (7)

14. Perhaps lees can

purify (7)

15. Reveal a former

stance (6)

16. Seen to have been

marked (7)

17. Al Green becomes an

officer (7)