CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

4 Grave words (7)

8 Land on fire! (6)

9 Establishing a link

with carpentry (7) 10 Continually changed course, showing diplomacy, we hear (6) 11 Clearly not men of business (6)

12 No backcloth as far as mariners are concerned (8) 18 Associate oneself with radioactivity (6,2)

20 He’s in a moneymaking business (6)

21 Search for food the enemy has a scrap inside (6)

22 Fix the score to

suit the players (7) 23 It’s obvious this confers an exclusive right (6) 24 Giving them away wouldn’t show generosity (7)

DOWN

1 Large dog makes mother rigid (7) 2 An unpleasant set of notes will cause strife (7)

3 The girl gets a variety of set papers (6) 5 They depict the sidelines (8) 6 Seaweed produces a complication (6) 7 A busy worker to show curiosity all round the food store (6)

13 Nobody left that’s O.K. (3,5) 14 Booked - for a forthcoming wedding (7)

15 Puts money in

clothing (7)

16 This running track

sounds rough (6) 17 Inequitable description of one who’s swarthy (6) 19 Describing a famous horse he’s a hard worker (6)