Crossword 3

ACROSS

1. Once erect I state my piece (6) 4. Reorganised Delhi’s defence (6) 9. Induce to become religious? (4,2,7)

10. Royal symbols from Algeria (7)

11. A duty we no longer owe to the church (5)

12. Fit girl given body-building exercises (5)

14. Instruct in art, perhaps (5) 18. Broadside of some colossal volume (5)

19. Seating is never enough with such chairs (7)

21. Unlikely to keep out of trouble long? (8,5)

22. Possibly run and see to make certain (6)

23. It’s used to lift - or bring down (6)

ACROSS

1. Pedestal (6) 4. Signal fire (6) 9. Trouble (13) 10. Overburden (7) 11. Fat (5)

12. Intimidate (5) 14. Attain (5)

18. Consume (3,2) 19. Detergent (7) 21. Backdated (13) 22. Buy back (6) 23. Torment (6)

DOWN

1. Governors help schoolboys with their lines (6)

2. What I should have done, if I were in your position! (7,6) 3. Everything unqualified (5) 5. It’s worn with one’s arm inside (7)

6. It just goes to show how time passes, currently speaking (8,5) 7. Engine gives out before the French come up (6)

8. A lighthouse casts it across the vessel (5)

13. He’s slow but sure (7)

15. Land in the States (6)

16. Signs in at the women’s hostel (5)

17. Maintain there’s some body in the beer (6)

20. Brown as pie, perhaps (5) 1. Jail (6) 2. Disabled (13) 3. Overwrought (5) 5. Incident (7) 6. Stooping (13) 7. Required (6) 8. Stop (5)

13. Censure (7) 15. Dread (6)

16. Compass (5) 17. Mourn (6) 20. Surpass (5)